LEADER 03447nam 22006375 450 001 9910887815803321 005 20250808090211.0 010 $a9783031672293 010 $a3031672291 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-67229-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31684340 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31684340 035 $a(CKB)36165536900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-67229-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936165536900041 100 $a20240922d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVikram Seth?s Poetics of Pastiche /$fby Mélanie Heydari 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (286 pages) 311 08$a9783031672286 311 08$a3031672283 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 ?A sort of literary untouchable? -- Chapter 3 A poetics of reprise -- Chapter 4 The historicity of language -- Chapter 5 Critical overview and conclusion. 330 $aVikram Seth is a critical enigma. He is recognized as one of the most important Indian Anglophone authors of his generation; his individual works have been widely reviewed, yet his work has rarely been approached as a whole and remains surprisingly understudied. Perhaps the chief reason for the paucity of critical response to the full compass of Seth?s work is his disregard for intellectual fashion. Indeed, Seth is at once very popular and deliberately unfashionable. His literary affiliations are conservative; seemingly uninterested in any revisionary narrative, he is equally unconcerned by the interpenetration of cultures in our globalized world, representing assimilation rather than cultural difference. He defies the expectations of both postcolonial and world literature; therefore, to discuss his critical neglect is to shed light on the limitations of these labels. As the most thorough attempt to map a general poetics in Seth?s work, this study ? the first of its kind on this writer? develops a new critical methodology to capture the nuances of Seth?s literary strategies. It provides scholars and students insight into the key features of Seth?s work and uncovers a consistent authorial strategy running through his seemingly disconnected body of work, namely a systematic use of intertextual practices. Mélanie Heydari is a lecturer in the Department of French and Comparative Literature of Barnard College, Columbia University, USA. . 606 $aLiterature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aPoetry 606 $aLiterary form 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 606 $aLiterary Genre 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aLiterary form. 615 14$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aPoetry and Poetics. 615 24$aLiterary Genre. 676 $a809.89 700 $aHeydari$b Mélanie$01304619 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910887815803321 996 $aVikram Seth's Poetics of Pastiche$94242601 997 $aUNINA