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Author:   Rüdiger Ahrens ,  Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   65
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9783631826324

ISBN 10:   363182632
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   27 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: The Cultural Context of the Failure Theme in Fiction, and the Purpose of this Study I. Human Failure Narrative Identity and Failure in Short Fiction Failure in the Novel: A Small Tale, Generally of Love The Trivial, and the Novel as ‘a Small Tale’ Personal Failure and the Political (I): Irish Fictions Failure and the Observance of the Ordinary Personal and the Political (II): Postcolonial Results: Failure, Identity, and the Ordinary Transitional Section: Failing Aspirations of Humanism II. Failure and the Artist The Failing Artist in a Short Story Cycle The Fictional Artist and His Failing in the Novel Intermediate Results Partial Failure: Divergence of Art and Life Failure and Triumph of the Fictional Artist in the Novel: A Paradox Irony and Black Humour: Artistic Failure vs. Celebrity Success and Failure in 21st-Century Biofictions Conclusion

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Professor Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz taught English and American literature and cultural studies as a senior lecturer in the English Department at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, until 2011. Her research interests are mainly in the fields of early modern literature, especially Shakespeare, and contemporary fiction.

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