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Jean-Michel Ganteau
It addresses the changes mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting them to the tyranny of a new attention economy to show how the contemporary novel…
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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…
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…
Some humanist critics contend that only realist texts have an ethical function, that there is no ethical message behind the parodic and self-conscious games played by experimental fiction and that…
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Susana Onega,Jean-Michel Ganteau
This book builds on theories of Transmodernity by Rodriguez Magda, Dussel, Luyckx Ghisi and Ateljevic, inter alia. It investigates their links with Postmodernity, Postcolonialism or Transculturalism.
The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteu bring together…
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…
New Visibilities: Victimhood and Other Forms of Vulnerability in 21st-century Fiction (eds. Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega) addresses the relationship between trauma and ethics, and moves one step further to…
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…
Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form gives an insight into the relationship between the difficulty of putting traumatic events or experiences into words and the subsequent ethicality…
