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(Beyond) posthuman violence : epic rewritings of ethics in the contemporary novel
- Title
- (Beyond) posthuman violence : epic rewritings of ethics in the contemporary novel / by Claudio Murgia.
- Author
- Murgia, Claudio
- Publication
- Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2019]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Docherty, Thomas, 1955-
- Description
- xxxix, 183 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- " ... The individual is affected by a difficulty to communicate her metaphor machine to the Other, as if it were inexpressible. This work explores how the characters in the works of David Foster Wallace, Cormac MacCarthy, J. G. Ballard, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Maurice G. Dantec and China Mieville suffer from these limits of language and the constrictions of the Law. Through violence they look for their individual Voice, intended as their will-to-say, the 'pure taking place of language' (Agamben). In their struggle to be heard these characters are however deaf to the Voice of the Other. There is a need for a new Ethics of Narratives expressed through an Epic of the Voice founded on the will-to-listen, along the lines of the concept of the posthuman theorized by Rosi Braidotti. Here subjectivity is a process of constant autopoiesis dependent on the relationship the individual has with the Other and ... "--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Series in literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Series in literary studies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Academic theses.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "With an introduction by Thomas Docherty, University of Warwick"--Book jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-180) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7794
- ISBN
- 9781622736386
- 1622736389
- LCCN
- 2019936109
- OCLC
- 1102636870
- Author
- Murgia, Claudio, author.
- Title
- (Beyond) posthuman violence : epic rewritings of ethics in the contemporary novel / by Claudio Murgia.
- Publisher
- Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Series in literary studiesSeries in literary studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-180) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Docherty, Thomas, 1955- writer of introduction.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7794