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Titre(s) : Diseases and disorders in contemporary fiction [Texte imprimé] : the syndrome syndrome / edited by T. J. Lustig and James Peacock
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-215 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 10
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in contemporary literature
Comprend : Introduction / T.J. Lustig and James Peacock ; The Naturalistic Turn, the Syndrome,
and the Rise of the Neo-Phenomenological Novel / Patricia Waugh ; Mapping the Syndrome
Novel / Stephen J. Burn ; From Syndrome to Sincerity: Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision
/ Adam Kelly ; "We learned to tell our story walking." Tourette's and Urban Space
in Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn / James Peacock ; The Pathologies of Mobility:
time travel as syndrome in The Time-Traveller's Wife / La Jetée, and Twelve Monkeys
/ Brian Baker ; Syndrome, Symptom and Trauma Chains in American Pre- and Post-9/11
Novels / Bent Sørensen ; Mind and Brain: The Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis's
Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday / Nick Bentley ; "Two way traffic?" Syndrome
as Symbol in Richard Powers' The Echo Maker / T.J. Lustig ; "I wanted unheimlich
[...] but of the right kind. Strangeness and Strangerness without the blank despair:"
Trauma and Travel in the Works of Jenny Diski / Joanna Price ; The Human Condition?
/ Martyn Bracewell ; A Psychiatrist's Opinion of the Neuronovel / Lisetta Lovett
; Annotated Bibliography I: Primary Materials / Nicola Brindley ; Annotated Bibliography
II: Secondary Materials / Hannah Merry ; List of Contributors ; Glossary.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological
conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers.
The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical
context, exploring such topics as the two cultures debate, the neurological turn,
postmodernism and the post-postmodern, and responses to September 11th. Considering
a variety of materials including mainstream literary fiction, the graphic novel, popular
fiction, autobiographical writing, film, and television, contributors consider the
contemporary dimensions of the interface between the sciences and humanities, developing
the debate about the post-postmodern as a new humanism or a return to realism and
investigating questions of form and genre, and of literary continuities and discontinuities.
Further, the essays discuss contemporary writers' attempts to engage the relation
between the individual and the social, looking at the relation between the "syndrome
syndrome" (referring to the prevalence in contemporary literature of neurological
phenomena evident at the biological level) and existing work in the field of trauma
studies (where explanations tend to have taken a psychoanalytical form), allowing
for perspectives that question some of the assumptions that have marked both these
fields. The current literary preoccupation with neurological conditions presents us
with a new and distinctive form of trauma literature, one concerned less with psychoanalysis
than with the physical and evolutionary status of human beings."--Publisher's website
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Lustig, T. J. (1961-....). Éditeur scientifique
Peacock, James (1970-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Maladies -- Dans la littérature
Traumatisme -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415507400 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0415507405 (hardback) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780203067314 (erroné) (ebk). - ISBN 0203067312 (erroné) (ebk). - ISBN 9780203098905
(ebook). - ISBN 0203098900 (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43645296c
Notice n° :
FRBNF43645296
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