Intertextual Transactions in American and Irish Fictions; Edited by Janusz Semrau

By Janusz Semrau

This volume is a posthumous revised edition of selected papers by Andrzej Kopcewicz on intertextual transactions in classic works of American and Irish fiction, published originally between 1992 and 2005. The book opens with a theoretical essay and proceeds with individual analyses of the interrelatedness, overlappings, entanglements, and reciprocities of some of the best-known works by Paul Auster and Herman Melville - Henry Adams, Frank R. Stockton and Thomas Pynchon - Donald Barthelme and James Joyce - James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Gilbert Sorrentino. The chapters lend themselves to being read in any order, selectively, and in isolation. Given a literal perspective by incongruity, however, the Joycean premise of the book is that a commodius vicus of recirculation (type by tope, letter from litter, word at ward) may bring the reader in any case (back) to the beginning.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 363158704X
• ISBN13: 9783631587041
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang D
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"