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The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2023
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ISBN : 1032423234

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This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an "ecology of attention" (Citton) based on poetic options whose pragmatic effect is to develop an ethics of the particularist type. To do this, I draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: psychology, but also more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, and analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the ethics of care and vulnerability. By using a selection of fictional and non-fictional narratives, I address such issues as social invisibilities, climate change, AI and cognitive disability and end up drafting a poetics of attention.

The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000832044

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The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative by Jean-Michel Ganteau Pdf

This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an “ecology of attention” (Citton) based on poetic options whose pragmatic effect is to develop an ethics of the particularist type. To do this, I draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: psychology, but also more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, and analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the ethics of care and vulnerability. By using a selection of fictional and non-fictional narratives, I address such issues as social invisibilities, climate change, AI and cognitive disability and end up drafting a poetics of attention.

The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

Author : Susana Onega,Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000750263

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The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by Susana Onega,Jean-Michel Ganteau Pdf

The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting the conventions of traditional forms of expressing grievability, such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography. Situating themselves in the wake of Judith Butler’s work on (un-)grievablability, the essays collected in this volume seek to cast new light on these issues by delving into the socio-cultural constructions of grievability and other types of vulnerabilities, invisibilities and inaudibilities linked with the neglect and/or abuse of non-normative individuals and submerged groups that have been framed as disposable, exploitable and/or unmournable by such determinant factors as sex, gender, ethnic origin, health, etc., thereby refining and displacing the category of subalternity associated with the poetics of postmodernism.

The Poetics and Ethics of (un)grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

Author : Susana Onega,Susana Onega Jaén,Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Routledge
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Release : 2022-12
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1032389761

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The Poetics and Ethics of (un)grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by Susana Onega,Susana Onega Jaén,Jean-Michel Ganteau Pdf

The book analyses the response given by Anglophone fictions since the 1990s to the ethical and political demands of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting traditional forms of expressing grievability such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography

Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry

Author : Kyra Piperides
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000910391

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Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry by Kyra Piperides Pdf

Delving into the landscapes and politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century South, East, and West Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities, Political Crises theorises Yorkshire as a distinct region of poetry in its own right. In outlining the commonalities and parameters of this branch of poetry, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry engages the work with a selection of poets writing in and about the region since 1945, including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Simon Armitage, Helen Mort, Zaffar Kunial, Kate Fox, and Vicky Foster. Charting the developments in Yorkshire poetry, this book explores several key contexts – including deindustrialisation, the Miners’ Strikes, and Brexit – in detail, evidencing the impacts of these sociopolitical events on the poetry of a region. Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry investigates 75 years of poetry to ask the question: what is Yorkshire poetry? In other words, what is it that connects poems by these writers, whilst setting them apart from poetry of other UK regions?

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature

Author : Miriam Fernández-Santiago,Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000827989

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Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature by Miriam Fernández-Santiago,Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández Pdf

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent technological and scientific developments have accentuated human vulnerability in many and different ways at a cross-national, and even cross-species level. Disability, technological, and ecological vulnerabilities are new foci of interest that add up to gender, precarity and trauma, among others, as forms of vulnerability in this volume. The literary visualization of these vulnerabilities might help raise social awareness of one’s own vulnerabilities as well as those of others so as to bring about global solidarity based on affinity and affect. However, the literary representation of forms of vulnerability might also deepen stigmatization phenomena and trivialize the spectacularization of vulnerability by blunting readers’ affective response towards those products that strive to hold their attention and interest in an information-saturated, global entertainment market.

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels

Author : Eva-Maria Windberger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
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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.

At Home with Ivan Vladislavić

Author : Gerald Gaylard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000854091

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At Home with Ivan Vladislavić by Gerald Gaylard Pdf

At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability. Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Olga Tokarczuk

Author : Lidia Wiśniewska,Jakub Lipski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000841282

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Olga Tokarczuk by Lidia Wiśniewska,Jakub Lipski Pdf

Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts. The chapters making up the volume range from myth-critical focused readings to interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives. Tokarczuk’s fiction is explored as mythopoeic and heterotopian experimentation, as well as being read alongside other arts and other authors of various national and linguistic backgrounds. This wide-ranging collection is the first monograph on Tokarczuk in English.

Posthumanity in the Anthropocene

Author : Esther Muñoz-González
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000866261

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Posthumanity in the Anthropocene by Esther Muñoz-González Pdf

In this book, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novels—The Handmaid’s Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last, and The Testaments—are analyzed from the perspective provided by the combined views of the construction of the posthuman subject in its interactions with science and technology, and the Anthropocene as a cultural field of enquiry. Posthumanist critical concerns try to dismantle anthropocentric notions of the human and defend the need for a closer relationship between humanity and the environment. Supported by the exemplification of the generic characteristics of the cli-fi genre, this book discusses the effects of climate change, at the individual level, and as a collective threat that can lead to a "world without us." Moreover, Margaret Atwood is herself the constant object of extensive academic interest and Posthuman theory is widely taught, researched, and explored in almost every intellectual field. This book is aimed at worldwide readers, not only those interested in Margaret Atwood’s oeuvre, but also those interested in the debate between critical posthumanism and transhumanism, together with the ethical implications of living in the Anthropocene era regarding our daily lives and practices. It will be especially attractive for academics: university teachers, postgraduates, researchers, and college students in general.

Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film

Author : Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández,Miriam Fernández-Santiago
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000956177

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Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández,Miriam Fernández-Santiago Pdf

Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary and filmic representations of vulnerability depict embodied forms of vulnerability across languages, media, genres, countries, and traditions in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The volume gathers 12 chapters penned by scholars from Japan, the USA, Canada, and Spain which look into the representation of vulnerability in human bodies and subjectivities. Not only is the array of genres covered in this volume significant— from narrative, drama, poetry, (auto)documentary, or film— in fiction and nonfiction, but also the varied cultural and linguistic coordinates of the literary and filmic texts scrutinized—from the USA, Canada, Spain, France, the Middle East, to Japan. Readers who decide to open the cover of this volume will benefit from becoming familiar with a relatively old topic— that of vulnerability— from a new perspective, so that they can consider the great potential of this critical concept anew.

The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau,Susana Onega
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1032733128

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The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative by Jean-Michel Ganteau,Susana Onega Pdf

This volume considers that contemporary narratives resist the economy of attention to promote an ecology of attention developing a particularist ethics. It draws on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various areas to provide an innovative contribution to the nascent field of the study of attention in literary criticism.

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317447573

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The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction by Jean-Michel Ganteau Pdf

This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central issues in contemporary culture, and artistic productions have increasingly made it their responsibility to evoke various types of vulnerabilities, from individual fragilities to economic and political forms of precariousness and dispossession. Informed by trauma studies and the ethics of literature, this book addresses such issues by focusing on the literary evocations of vulnerability and analyzing various aspects of vulnerable form as represented and performed in British narratives, from contemporary classics by Peter Ackroyd, Pat Barker, Anne Enright, Ian McEwan, and Jeanette Winterson, to less canonical texts by Nina Allan, Jon McGregor, and N. Royle. Chapters on romance, elegy, the ghost story, and the state-of-the-nation novel draw on a variety of theoretical approaches from the fields of trauma studies, affect theory, the ethics of alterity, the ethics of care, and the ethics of vulnerability, among others. Showcasing how the contemporary novel is the privileged site of the expression and performance of vulnerability and vulnerable form, the volume broaches a poetics of vulnerability based on categories such as testimony, loss, unknowing, temporal disarray, and performance. On top of providing a book-length evocation of contemporary fictions of vulnerability and vulnerable form, this volume contributes significantly to considerations of the importance of Trauma Studies to Contemporary Literature.

Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Susana Onega,Susana Onega Jaén,Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401200080

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Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction by Susana Onega,Susana Onega Jaén,Jean-Michel Ganteau Pdf

Preliminary material /Editors Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction -- INTRODUCTION /JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU and SUSANA ONEGA -- READING TRAUMA IN PAT BARKER'S REGENERATION TRILOGY /LENA STEVEKER -- THE ETHICAL CLOCK OF TRAUMA IN EVA FIGES' WINTER JOURNEY /SILVIA PELLICER-ORTÍN -- “NOBODY'SMEAT”: REVISITING RAPE AND SEXUAL TRAUMA THROUGH ANGELA CARTER /CHARLEY BAKER -- “A NEW ALGEBRA”: THE POETICS AND ETHICS OF TRAUMA IN J.G. BALLARD'S THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION /JAKOB WINNBERG -- TRAUMA AS THE NEGATION OF AUTONOMY: MICHAEL MOORCOCK'S MOTHER LONDON /JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU -- WHERE MADNESS LIES: HOLOCAUST REPRESENTATION AND THE ETHICS OF FORM IN MARTIN AMIS' TIME'S ARROW /MARÍA JESÚS MARTÍNEZ-ALFARO -- WORLDWAR II FICTION AND THE ETHICS OF TRAUMA /GERD BAYER -- A TERRIBLE BEAUTY: ETHICS, AESTHETICS AND THE TRAUMA OF GAYNESS IN ALAN HOLLINGHURST'S THE LINE OF BEAUTY /JOSÉ M. YEBRA -- “THE ETERNAL LOOP OF SELF-TORTURE”: ETHICS AND TRAUMA IN IANMCEWAN'S ATONEMENT /GEORGES LETISSIER -- CONJUNCTURES OF UNEASINESS: TRAUMA IN FAY WELDON'S THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY AND IN IAN MCEWAN'S ON CHESIL BEACH /ANGELA LOCATELLI -- REPRESENTING THE CHILD SOLDIER: TRAUMA, POSTCOLONIALISM AND ETHICS IN DELIA JARRETTMACAULEY'SMOSES, CITIZEN AND ME /ANNE WHITEHEAD -- THE TRAUMA PARADIGM AND THE ETHICS OF AFFECT IN JEANETTE WINTERSON'S THE STONE GODS /SUSANA ONEGA -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS /Editors Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction -- INDEX /Editors Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction.

Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau,Susana Onega Jaén
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415661072

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Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature by Jean-Michel Ganteau,Susana Onega Jaén Pdf

"Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book brings together trauma and romance, showing how romance strategies have become an essential component of trauma fiction in general and traumatic realism in particular"-- Provided by publisher.