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Common Lines and City Spaces : A Critical Anthology on Arthur Yap / ed. by Gui Weihsin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789814379908
  • 9789814379915
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.598 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9570.S53 C66 2014
  • DS644 .W43 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE Contribu tors -- 1 CoMMON LINES AND CITY SPACES Introduction -- 2 The Transformation of Objects into Things in Arthur Yap’s Poetry -- 3 “the same tableau, intrinsically still” Arthur Yap, Poet-Painter -- 4 “go to bedok, you bodoh” Arthur Yap’s Mapping of Singaporean Space -- 5 On Places and Spaces The Possibilities of Teaching Arthur Yap -- 6 Arthur Yap’s Ecological Poetics of the Daily -- 7 “except for a word” Arthur Yap’s Unspoken Homoeroticism -- 8 “a long way from what?” Folkways and Social Commentary in Arthur Yap’s Short Stories -- Index
Summary: This collection of essays on the Singaporean writer and artist Arthur Yap is dedicated to his multifaceted creative work and makes it accessible to both general and academic readers. It features new and innovative essays on Yap’s prose, poetry and paintings by an international group of scholars and critics. The essays approach Yap’s work through literary and analytical methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, ecocriticism, studies of urban spaces, visual art and sexuality, with particular consideration for how his work contributes to a specifically Singaporean form of postcolonial critique.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE Contribu tors -- 1 CoMMON LINES AND CITY SPACES Introduction -- 2 The Transformation of Objects into Things in Arthur Yap’s Poetry -- 3 “the same tableau, intrinsically still” Arthur Yap, Poet-Painter -- 4 “go to bedok, you bodoh” Arthur Yap’s Mapping of Singaporean Space -- 5 On Places and Spaces The Possibilities of Teaching Arthur Yap -- 6 Arthur Yap’s Ecological Poetics of the Daily -- 7 “except for a word” Arthur Yap’s Unspoken Homoeroticism -- 8 “a long way from what?” Folkways and Social Commentary in Arthur Yap’s Short Stories -- Index

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This collection of essays on the Singaporean writer and artist Arthur Yap is dedicated to his multifaceted creative work and makes it accessible to both general and academic readers. It features new and innovative essays on Yap’s prose, poetry and paintings by an international group of scholars and critics. The essays approach Yap’s work through literary and analytical methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, ecocriticism, studies of urban spaces, visual art and sexuality, with particular consideration for how his work contributes to a specifically Singaporean form of postcolonial critique.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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