03606nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-67229-3 DE-He213 20251030113059.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240922s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031672293 978-3-031-67229-3 10.1007/978-3-031-67229-3 doi PN843-849 DS bicssc LIT000000 bisacsh DS thema Heydari, Mélanie. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84820 Vikram Seth’s Poetics of Pastiche [electronic resource] / by Mélanie Heydari. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 282 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 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. Vikram 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. . Literature. 65108 Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 21st century. 66700 Poetry. 66137 Literary form. 73907 World Literature. 66655 Contemporary Literature. 66702 Poetry and Poetics. 66141 Literary Genre. 73910 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031672286 Printed edition: 9783031672309 Printed edition: 9783031672316 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67229-3 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 63619 63619