Source
American Literature
Volume 76, Number 3, September 2004
pp. 626-628 |
Victoria Ramirez - Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning, and: Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web (review) - American Literature 76:3 American Literature 76.3 (2004) 626-628 Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning. By Christian Moraru. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2001. xviii, 230 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web . By Jerome McGann. New York: Palgrave. 2001. xv, 272 pp. $35.00. Bakhtin's theories of textual heteroglossia are familiar to scholars in language-based fields. Imaginative writing's polyvalency is the focus of Christian Moraru's Rewriting and Jerome McGann's Radiant Textuality, which treat revision of model texts as a potentially productive strategy for writers and an inevitable activity for readers. Explicitly rejecting Terry Eagleton's claim that all writing is a reworking of other writing, Moraru focuses on postmodern novels that...
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