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Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction - Jonathan Boulter

Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction

The Thought of the Disaster
Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9962-0 (ISBN)
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A reading of Blanchot’s idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland
Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster delves into Maurice Blanchot’s enigmatic, and deeply influential, notion of the disaster – a term Blanchot famously refuses to define. By exploring the novels of Jon McGregor, Mike McCormack, David Mitchell, Jeanette Winterson and Maggie Gee, Jonathan Boulter suggests that we can think of literature, the space of the imagination, as the place where some conception (ethical, ecological, or ontological) of the disaster emerges. These novels, all in some ways about the disaster, just as they are inflected by the disaster, become the place where an understanding of critical events – death, ecological catastrophe, pandemics – is possible.

Jonathan Boulter is Professor of English at Western University, London, Canada. His previous publications include Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett’s Short Prose (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (Wayne State UP, 2015), Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (Continuum, 2011), Samuel Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008), and Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett (University Press of Florida, 2001).

Acknowledgements

Introduction                                                                                                                        

Prelude: J.G Ballard’s Disastrous Worlds                                                                         

1. Ecologies of Disaster: Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13                                       

2. Writing Extinction: Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones                                        



3. Desire and Disaster: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas                                                           



4. Posthumanism and Disaster: Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods        



5. Disaster and Apocalypse: Maggie Gee’s The Flood                                         



Conclusion: The Gift of the Disaster                                                                     

References 

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Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
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ISBN-10 1-4744-9962-7 / 1474499627
ISBN-13 978-1-4744-9962-0 / 9781474499620
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