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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…
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Susana Onega
In the first book-length study to date, Susana Onega’s assessment of Ackroyd’s literary identity treads the entire range of his writings.
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A study of Jeanette Winterson’s work, containing analyses of her nine novels and cross-references to her minor fictional and non-fictional works. This book establishes the formal, thematic, and ideological characteristics…
This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson’s work as a whole. The study establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels and situates the writer within…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Narratology is a rapidly growing field in the humanities. This text provides an overview of, and introduction to, the subject, as well as assessing recent developments across a variety of…
This text provides an introduction and overview of narratology. The introduction explains the central concepts of narratology and their historical development, and draws together contemporary trends from many different disciplines…
This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the…
