03206nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001500167072002300182072001400205100008100219245008800300250001800388264007900406300003300485336002600518337002600544338003600570347002400606505019900630520147500829650001602304650003802320650003802358650001202396650001902408650002202427650002902449650002402478650002002502710003402522773002602556776003602582776003602618776003602654856004602690978-3-031-67229-3DE-He21320251030113059.0cr nn 008mamaa240922s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316722937 a10.1007/978-3-031-67229-32doi 4aPN843-849 7aDS2bicssc 7aLIT0000002bisacsh 7aDS2thema1 aHeydari, Mélanie.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aVikram Seth’s Poetics of Pasticheh[electronic resource] /cby Mélanie Heydari.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 282 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 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.  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. . 0aLiterature. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aLiterature, Modernx21st century. 0aPoetry. 0aLiterary form.14aWorld Literature.24aContemporary Literature.24aPoetry and Poetics.24aLiterary Genre.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303167228608iPrinted edition:z978303167230908iPrinted edition:z978303167231640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67229-3