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Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels

Peter Childs,James Green

Author : Peter Childs,James Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623564698

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Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels by Peter Childs,James Green Pdf

A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored. Close readings of the writers are informed by a range of contemporary theorists, critics and commentators to reveal the emphases of twenty-first century fiction. Terror, fear, consumerism, multinationalism, and corporatism: the terms circulating in culture and social networks are evident in Smith's faith in ethical living, Aslam's consideration of multiculturalism, the novels Kunzru builds around the politics of identity and in the importance Mitchell places on the interconnectedness of human life. By putting the emergence of a new British literary dynamic in the context of ethical as well as global contexts, this study analyzes the transformed fictional perceptions of a world no longer defined by the stand off of super powers.

Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction

Kristian Shaw

Author : Kristian Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319525242

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Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction by Kristian Shaw Pdf

“Cosmopolitanism contains some of the most polished and enviably well-written chapters of literary criticism that have ever come my way. Shaw’s readings are critically informed and theoretically sophisticated, yet at the same time remarkably lucid and clear. This is a work of very fine, well-balanced, and – for a first book – astonishingly mature scholarship.” — Prof Berthold Schoene, Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK “The first study to fully appreciate contemporary literature's engagement with cosmopolitanism. A persuasive and articulate engagement with questions of ethics, community, transnationalism and cultural identity, it's an essential read for anyone interested in the contribution of contemporary fiction to our world today”. — Dr Sara Upstone, Principal Lecturer in English Literature, Kingston University, UK. This study of cosmopolitanism in contemporary British and American fiction identifies several authors who forge new and intensified dialogues between local experience and global flows. The twenty-first century has been marked by an unprecedented intensification in globalisation, transnational mobility and technological change. The theories and values of cosmopolitanism will be argued to provide a direct response to ways of being-in-relation to others and answer urgent fears surrounding cultural convergence. The four chapters examine works by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Teju Cole, Dave Eggers and Hari Kunzru. The study will demonstrate how these authors imagine new cosmopolitan modes of belonging and point towards the need for an emergent and affirmative cosmopolitics attuned to the diversity and complexity of twenty-first century globality. The study assumes an interdisciplinary approach and will appeal to literature academics, under-/ postgraduate students, and researchers interested in the culture and politics of contemporary life.

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Nina Engelhardt,Julia Hoydis

Author : Nina Engelhardt,Julia Hoydis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030194901

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Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction by Nina Engelhardt,Julia Hoydis Pdf

This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction, including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry. This collection considers how texts engage with science and technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in life today, in times past, and in times to come.

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction

Daniel O'Gorman,Robert Eaglestone

Author : Daniel O'Gorman,Robert Eaglestone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134743773

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The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction by Daniel O'Gorman,Robert Eaglestone Pdf

The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How do we track cultural shifts and changes? The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction takes on this challenge, mapping key literary trends from the year 2000 onwards, as the landscape of our century continues to take shape around us. A significant and central intervention into contemporary literature, this Companion offers essential coverage of writers who have risen to prominence since then, such as Hari Kunzru, Jennifer Egan, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Ali Smith, A. L. Kennedy, Hilary Mantel, Marilynne Robinson, and Colson Whitehead. Thirty-eight essays by leading and emerging international scholars cover topics such as: • Identity, including race, sexuality, class, and religion in the twenty-first century; • The impact of technology, terrorism, activism, and the global economy on the modern world and modern literature; • The form and format of twenty-first century literary fiction, including analysis of established genres such as the pastoral, graphic novels, and comedic writing, and how these have been adapted in recent years. Accessible to experts, students, and general readers, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of contemporary literature.

The Novel and the New Ethics

Dorothy J. Hale

Author : Dorothy J. Hale
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503614079

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The Novel and the New Ethics by Dorothy J. Hale Pdf

For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of novelist-critics—including J.M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gish Jen, Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Franzen—champion the novel as the literary genre most qualified to illuminate individual ethical action and decision-making within complex and diverse social worlds. Key to this contemporary vision of the novel's ethical power is the task of knowing and being responsible to people different from oneself, and so thoroughly have contemporary novelists devoted themselves to the ethics of otherness, that this ethics frequently sets the terms for plot, characterization, and theme. In The Novel and the New Ethics, literary critic Dorothy J. Hale investigates how the contemporary emphasis on literature's social relevance sparks a new ethical description of the novel's social value that is in fact rooted in the modernist notion of narrative form. This "new" ethics of the contemporary moment has its origin in the "new" idea of novelistic form that Henry James inaugurated and which was consolidated through the modernist narrative experiments and was developed over the course of the twentieth century. In Hale's reading, the art of the novel becomes defined with increasing explicitness as an aesthetics of alterity made visible as a formalist ethics. In fact, it is this commitment to otherness as a narrative act which has conferred on the genre an artistic intensity and richness that extends to the novel's every word.

The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan

Dominic Head

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108480338

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The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan by Dominic Head Pdf

Provides a thorough overview of Ian McEwan's fiction, articulating his place in the canon of contemporary fiction.

Contemporary Fictions of Attention

Alice Bennett

Author : Alice Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474282635

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Contemporary Fictions of Attention by Alice Bennett Pdf

With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct 'fictions of attention' that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by a diverse selection of writers, including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention. Contemporary Fictions of Attention locates a common interest in attention within 21st-century fiction and connects this interest to a series of debates surrounding ethics, temporality, the everyday, boredom, work, and self-discipline in contemporary culture.

Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction

Sara Upstone

Author : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317914815

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Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction by Sara Upstone Pdf

This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing. Examining the work of writers from a wide range of diverse racial backgrounds, the book illustrates how contemporary British fiction, rather than merely reflecting social norms, is making a radical contribution towards the possible future of a positively multi-ethnic and post-racial Britain. This is developed by a strategic use of the realist form, which becomes a utopian device as it provides readers with a reality beyond current circumstances, yet one which is rooted within an identifiable world. Speaking to the specific contexts of British cultural politics, and directly connecting with contemporary debates surrounding race and identity in Britain, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, including Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, John Lanchester, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis, Jon McGregor, Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hari Kunzru, Nadeem Aslam, Meera Syal, Jackie Kay, Maggie Gee, and Neil Gaiman. This cutting-edge volume explores how contemporary fiction is at the centre of re-thinking how we engage with the question of race in twenty-first-century Britain.

Novel Style

Ben Masters

Author : Ben Masters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191078774

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Novel Style by Ben Masters Pdf

We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find some linguistic luxury, we are flirting with a recessionary mood. Big books abound, but rhetorical largesse at the level of the sentence is a shrinking economy. There is a prevailing minimalist sensibility in the twenty-first century. Novel Style is driven by a conviction that elaborate writing opens up unique ways of thinking; crucial and enriching ways that are endangered when expression is reduced to its leanest possible forms. By re-examining the works of frequently misunderstood English stylists of the late twentieth century (Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis), as well as a newer generation of twenty-first-century stylists (Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, David Mitchell), Ben Masters argues for the ethical power of stylistic flamboyance in fiction and demonstrates how being a stylist and an ethicist are one and the same thing. A passionate championing of elaborate writing and close reading, Novel Style illuminates what it means to have style and how style can change us. .

John Burnside

Ben Davies

Author : Ben Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350036994

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John Burnside by Ben Davies Pdf

Celebrated as a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, and the winner of numerous major literary prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, John Burnside is one of Britain's leading contemporary writers. John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary literature to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, from his fiction and poetry to his autobiographical and nature writing, exploring texts such as The Dumb House, The Light Trap, A Lie about My Father, Glister and Black Cat Bone. The book examines the major themes of Burnside's work, including the environment and the natural world, hauntings and dwelling, and his intertextual engagement with philosophy, music and the visual arts. Featuring a timeline of Burnside's life, an interview with the writer himself and a detailed list of further reading, this is the first authoritative guide to this major contemporary writer.

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels

Eva-Maria Windberger

Author : Eva-Maria Windberger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000891225

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The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels by Eva-Maria Windberger Pdf

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels combines the investigation of David Mitchell’s novels with the introduction of a new critical concept to literary studies: empowerment. Aiming to situate and establish empowerment firmly within the context of literary studies, it offers the first framework and definition for reading fictional texts with the lens of empowerment and applies it in the analysis of discourse, the fictional characters, and the role of the reader in Mitchell’s novels. Drawing on narratological analysis, cognitive approaches to literature, and reader-response theory, it features close readings of Cloud Atlas (2004), Black Swan Green (2006), and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) and dissects the author’s strategies, poetics, and agenda of empowering fiction. This book argues for an inherent, indissoluble connection between empowerment and the telling of stories and demonstrates how literary studies can benefit from a serious engagement with empowerment—and how such an engagement can stimulate new responses to fiction and put literary studies in conversation with other disciplines.

Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture

Derek Gladwin

Author : Derek Gladwin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954699

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Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture by Derek Gladwin Pdf

Gastro-Modernism ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with the food culture to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce.

Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction

Thom Dancer

Author : Thom Dancer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192645364

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Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction by Thom Dancer Pdf

From climate catastrophe to pandemics and economic crises, the problems facing humanity can feel impossible to solve. Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction argues that contemporary fiction helps those who may feel despair at the enormity of such problems — not, as usually assumed, through the ambitious search for grand solutions but rather by cultivating a temperament of modesty. This new temperament of critical modesty locates the fight for freedom and human dignity within the limited and compromised conditions in which we find ourselves. Through readings of Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, J. M. Coetzee, and David Mitchell, Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction advances a claim for the value of temperament in general as a crucial analytic for understanding contemporary experience as well as for a particular temperament of critical modesty as crucial in negotiating the limits of critical and human agency that constitute our daily lives. Exploring modest forms of entangled human agency that represent an alternative to the novel of the large scale that have been most closely associated with the Anthropocene, this volume makes the surprising case that by adopting a modest stance, the novel has the potential to play a more important socio-cultural role than it has done. In doing so, it offers an engaging response to the debate over critical and surface readings, bringing novels themselves into the conversation and arguing for a fictional mode that is both critical and modest, reminding us how much we are already engaged with the world, implicated and compromised, before we start developing theories, writing stories, or acting within it.

Apocalyptic Fiction

Andrew Tate

Author : Andrew Tate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474233521

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Apocalyptic Fiction by Andrew Tate Pdf

Visions of post-apocalyptic worlds have proved to be irresistible for many 21st-century writers, from literary novelists to fantasy and young adult writers. Exploring a wide range of texts, from the works of Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Perrotta and Emily St. John Mandel to young adult novels such as Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series, this is the first critical introduction to contemporary apocalyptic fiction. Exploring the cultural and political contexts of these writings and their echoes in popular media, Apocalyptic Fiction also examines how contemporary apocalyptic texts looks back to earlier writings by the likes of Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells and J.G. Ballard. Apocalyptic Fiction includes an annotated guide to secondary readings, making this an essential guide for students of contemporary fiction at all levels.

Fictions of Infinity

Martin Riedelsheimer

Author : Martin Riedelsheimer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110712407

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Fictions of Infinity by Martin Riedelsheimer Pdf

This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a book and finds an answer that combines conceptual metaphor theory with concepts from classical narratology and beyond, such as mise en abyme, textual circularity, intertextuality or omniscient narration. It argues that texts with such structures may be conceptualised as infinite via Lakoff and Núñez’s Basic Metaphor of Infinity. The catachrestic transfer of infinity from structure to text means that the texts themselves are understood to be infinite. Taking its cue from the central role of the infinite in Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics, the function of such ‘fictions of infinity’ turns out to be ethical: infinite textuality disrupts reading patterns and calls into question the reader’s spontaneity to interpret. This hypothesis is put to the test in detailed readings of four 21st-century novels, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, Ian McEwan’s Saturday and John Banville’s The Infinities. This book thus combines ethical criticism with structural aesthetics to uncover ethical potential in fiction.

Aesthetics And Ethics In Twenty First Century British Novels

Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels by Peter Childs,James Green Pdf

Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction by Kristian Shaw Pdf

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction by Nina Engelhardt,Julia Hoydis Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction by Daniel O'Gorman,Robert Eaglestone Pdf

The Novel and the New Ethics by Dorothy J. Hale Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan by Dominic Head Pdf

Contemporary Fictions of Attention by Alice Bennett Pdf

Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction by Sara Upstone Pdf

Novel Style by Ben Masters Pdf

John Burnside by Ben Davies Pdf

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels by Eva-Maria Windberger Pdf

Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture by Derek Gladwin Pdf

Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction by Thom Dancer Pdf

Apocalyptic Fiction by Andrew Tate Pdf

Fictions of Infinity by Martin Riedelsheimer Pdf

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