The possibility of literature the novel and the politics of form
Introduction: The possibility of literature -- A sort of crutch : race and prosthesis in Herman Melville's fiction -- Samuel Beckett : towards a political reading -- A leap out of our biology : history, tautology and biomatter in DeLillo's later fiction -- A more sophisticated imitation :...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, New York, Port Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2024
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: The possibility of literature -- A sort of crutch : race and prosthesis in Herman Melville's fiction -- Samuel Beckett : towards a political reading -- A leap out of our biology : history, tautology and biomatter in DeLillo's later fiction -- A more sophisticated imitation : Ishiguro and the novel -- A cleaving in the mind : Kelman's later novels -- Zadie Smith, E. M. Forster and the idea of beauty -- The threshold of vision : the animal gaze in Beckett, Sebald and Coetzee -- The anatomy of realism : Cervantes, Coetzee and artificial life -- Back roads : Edgeworth. Bowen. Yeats. Beckett -- Blind seeing : death writing from Dickinson to the contemporary -- Mere being : imagination at the end of the mind -- Imagining the future in the British novel -- Shallow intensity : neoliberalism and the novel -- To carry now away : happy days in the Anthropocene -- On rereading Proust. "An essential collection from a singular voice in contemporary literary studies. Assembling key compositions from the last twenty-five years, and several new pieces, Boxall demonstrates the changing fate of literary thinking over the first decades of this century while giving critical expression to the imaginative possibilities of literature itself"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 372-388 Index: Seite 389-394 |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 394 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781009314299 978-1-009-31429-9 |