Resurgence in Jane Urquhart's Oeuve

by Daziron-ventura, Heliane; Dvorak, Marta

• ISBN13: 9789052016344
• ISBN10: 9052016348
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-25
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Author Biography

Héliane Daziron-Ventura is Professor at the University of Orleans. Her publications focus on transmediality and transnationality in the contemporary short story in English. She is currently involved in research on the relationship between Alice Munro and James Hogg at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh. Marta Dvorák is Professor of Canadian and Commonwealth Literatures at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, former Associate Editor of The International Journal of Canadian Studies, and Editor of Commonwealth Essays and Studies. Her most recent books include Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, and Canadian Writing in Context (co-ed. with W.H. New) and Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue (co-ed. with Diana Brydon).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction: Resurgence	p. 11
An Address	p. 17
A Romantic Aesthetics
Mourning/Mocking Browning. The Resurgence of a Romantic Aesthetics in Jane UrquhartÆs The Whirlpool	p. 27
The Resurgence of Poetry in Jane UrquhartÆs The Whirlpool	p. 43
Bront(ë)ology as Emotional Landscaping in Changing Heaven	p. 63
Écrire le cri : résurgences figurales dans ôItalian Postcardsö	p. 77
Metahistory And Metatextuality
When the Underpainting Shows Through: Jane UrquhartÆs Resurgent Transmutations	p. 91
Collection, Canadian Nationalism, and Colonial Resurgences in Jane UrquhartÆs Away	p. 109
Talking Crow: Jane UrquhartÆs Away	p. 129
Jane Urquhart, Arbiter of the Aesthetic	p. 145
Intimate, Specular, And Persistent Configurations
Intimate and Conditional. Artistic Gesture in Jane UrquhartÆs False Shuffles, The Underpainter and A Map of Glass	p. 159
Maps, Icons, and Other Specular Traces of the Unconscious in Jane UrquhartÆs A Map of Glass	p. 175
Reconstructing the Past Through Objects in A Map of Glass	p. 185
A Biography of Stones. Mourning and Mutability in Jane UrquhartÆs A Map of Glass and Michael RedhillÆs Consolation	p. 201
The Persistence of Facts. A Discussion with Jane Urquhart	p. 215
Notes on Contributors	p. 225
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