Portable Prose (eBook)

The Novel and the Everyday

Jarrad Cogle, N. Cyril Fischer, Lydia Saleh Rofail, Vanessa Smith (Herausgeber)

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2018
228 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6270-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday explores issues related to objecthood, the everyday, and portability within the novel. The scope of this wide-ranging collection includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, contemporary postmodern literature and science fiction, as well as broader theories of the novel and the nature of reading.

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Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a physical object that occupies public and private space. This collection interrogates the relationships between these differing aspects of the novel's existence, negotiating the boundaries between the material world, subjective experience, and strategies of representation. This collection offers a wide array of innovative novelistic explorations-with a focus ranging from nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary literary theory-and explores the portability of novels as both physical things and virtual hermeneutic devices.While mimetic qualities of prose remain an integral consideration for literary interpretation, this collection argues for more diverse frameworks-ones that see aesthetic components of the novel in close connection with reading practices, shared structures of feeling, and the corporeal. In this capacity, this volume will argue for readings of texts that consider the capacity for literary culture to move through the world, but also to make it or re-make it new.

Autor

Jarrad Cogle is independent scholar in research on literary and film criticism.Lydia Saleh Rofail is PhD candidate in English at the University of Sydney.N. Cyril Fischer is independent scholar in research on new modernism and contemporary fiction studies.Vanessa Smith is professor of English literature at the University of Sydney.

Inhalt

Section 1: Literary History after the EverydayChapter 1: Portable Vision, Form, and Objects in Henry James, by Zachary Tavlin and Bob HodgesChapter 2: Fredric Jameson and Affect Theory: Realism and Everyday Experience, by Jarrad CogleChapter 3: Novel Readings: Mind- and Emotion-reading Devices in the Mid-twentieth Century and in Philip K. Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Chris RudgeSection 2: Everyday EpistemologiesChapter 4: Filth and the Everyday, by Hisup ShinChapter 5: The Prosaic and the Phantasmagoric: Urban Bodies in Peter Carey’s The Tax Inspector, by Lydia Saleh RofailChapter 6: “I had made it myself”: Convergence of Past and Present Selves in Villette, by Jennifer WilsonSection 3: Everyday ReadersChapter 7: Domesticating Charlotte Corday: Helen Craik’s Adelaide de Narbonne and Private Vengeance, by Stephanie RussoChapter 8: Thomas Wolfe and the Domestication of Culture, by Jedidiah EvansChapter 9: Missing Books, by Nicola EvansAfterword: Portability Now: Between Thing Theory and Object-Oriented Ontology, by John Plotz

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2018
• Co-Autor: Hisup Shin, Vanessa Smith, Zachary Tavlin, Jennifer Wilson, Jarrad Cogle, Jedidiah Evans, Nicola Evans, N. Cyril Fischer, Bob Hodges, Lydia Saleh Rofail, Christopher Rudge, Stephanie Russo
• Nachwort: John Plotz
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Epistemology • Everyday • Literary criticism • Literary Studies • Materialism • Materiality • Novel • object • portability • prosaic • Social Science • surface reading • Thing Theory
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6270-1 / 1498562701
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6270-6 / 9781498562706