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The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity
This volume focuses on language and ethics in literary genres, such as dystopia, science fiction, and fantasy, that depict encounters with alterity. Indeed, so-called “genre literature” embodies a heuristic model that dramatizes and exacerbates these encounters by featuring exotic, subhuman or post-human beings that defy human knowledge, elements particularly prevalent in science fiction and fantasy. These genres have often been regarded as an entertaining or escapist field that does not lend itself to ethical and poetical reflections, limiting its scope to a hollow and servile repetition of genre codes. This volume shows unequivocally that this field does lend itself to such reflections...
Durban Dialogues Dissected
This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the work of Indian South African playwright Ashwin Singh, which, through the diversity of characters from all ethnic backgrounds, forges an inclusive South African identity. The essays in this volume show how Singh’s plays bring South Africa’s blatant prejudices and social ills to the forefront as only by confronting unpleasant realities can any far-reaching changes actually take place. The academics and cultural practitioners who have contributed to this volume approach Singh’s work from a variety of angles, ranging from history, psychology and experimental literary forms to the performance of the plays, the relevance of the stage directions and the symbiotic relationship between the playwright and the director. The contrast between the climate of optimistic political protest and the complacency and disillusion of the new democratic era is seen to reassess the actions of the past in the light of present outcomes.
Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction
Preliminary material /Editors Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction -- INTRODUCTION /JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU and SUSANA ONEGA -- READING TRAUMA IN PAT BARKER'S REGENERATION TRILOGY /LENA STEVEKER -- THE ETHICAL CLOCK OF TRAUMA IN EVA FIGES' WINTER JOURNEY /SILVIA PELLICER-ORTÍN -- “NOBODY'SMEAT”: REVISITING RAPE AND SEXUAL TRAUMA THROUGH ANGELA CARTER /CHARLEY BAKER -- “A NEW ALGEBRA”: THE POETICS AND ETHICS OF TRAUMA IN J.G. BALLARD'S THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION /JAKOB WINNBERG -- TRAUMA AS THE NEGATION OF AUTONOMY: MICHAEL MOORCOCK'S MOTHER LONDON /JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU -- WHERE MADNESS LIES: HOLOCAUST REPRESENTATION AND THE ETHICS OF FORM IN MARTIN AMIS' TIME'S ARROW /MARÍA JE...
Livestock and Literature
This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction. In times of accelerated global warming, an acute pandemic, and breakthroughs in bioengineering practices, discussions on how to rethink the relationships to these animals have become as heated as perhaps never before. Livestock and Literature examines what literature has to contribute to these debates. In particular, it draws on counter-narratives to so-called livestock animals’ commodification in selected science- and speculative fiction (SF) works from the twenty-first century. These texts imagine ‘what if’ scenarios where "livestock" pr...
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Novelists in the New Millennium
A collection of interviews with leading writers such as Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy and Will Self. Through these interviews the book explores and introduces a range of key themes in contemporary literature, raising questions about genre, history, postmodernism, celebrity culture and form.
Frankenstein et sa créature, d'hier à aujourd'hui
Cet ouvrage s’intéresse aux adaptations du roman de Mary Shelley, qui est sans doute l’œuvre ayant subi le plus de transformations dans l’histoire. Cinéma, théâtre, littérature, bande dessinée, jeu vidéo, musique et art visuel ne cessent d’en proposer des versions différentes. Comment expliquer ce succès, jamais démenti ? Sans équivalent dans la francophonie, avec ses analyses étoffées très variées qui touchent plusieurs formes génériques, le livre s’interroge également sur l’idée même d’adaptation : à partir de quel moment peut-on affirmer qu’une œuvre s’inspire de l’original ? Les amateurs de fiction comme les professionnels, en plus de tous les fans de Frankenstein, apprécieront les interprétations des œuvres étudiées dans ce collectif, qui offre en bonus une médiagraphie imposante des productions inspirées par le savant et son double monstrueux.
Perspektivische Interaktion im Roman
Wie verstehen wir literarische Figuren und deren fiktionales Bewusstsein beim Lesen? Welche Rolle spielen figurale Konstellationen und wie funktioniert Multiperspektivität? Unter Rückgriff auf moderne Kognitionsforschung wendet sich diese Arbeit dem Zusammenspiel von Figurenperspektiven zu und zeigt, dass diesem eine entscheidende Rolle beim Verständnis literarischer Texte und deren Interpretation zukommt. Auf methodisch reflektierte Weise werden dabei etablierte erzähltheoretische Ansätze zu fiktionalen Akteuren und Perspektivenstrukturen mithilfe von Blending Theory neu gedacht und am Beispiel des englischen Romans zu einer allgemeinen Theorie perspektivischer Interaktion weiterentwickelt. Dabei geht es neben der theoretischen Erfassung dieses Zusammenspiels auch um die Möglichkeit der praktischen Anwendung auf konkrete literarische Texte. So demonstriert die Arbeit anhand detaillierter exemplarischer Analysen ferner das Applikationspotential und die analytische Leistungsfähigkeit des Modells und stellt damit eine umfassende Annäherung an das Phänomen interagierender Perspektiven aus dem Blickwinkel einer kognitiven Narratologie dar.
