Research Catalog

Title

Narrative care : biopolitics and the novel / Arne De Boever.

Author

De Boever, Arne.

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

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Details

Description

x, 181 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
• Ethics in literature
• Biopolitics

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Towards a pharmacology of the novel -- The moment of narrative care -- A pharmacological theory of care -- A biopolitical history of the novel -- After ethics: reading Sebald's images -- J.M. Coetzee and the obscene -- J.M. Coetzee's Slow man as "a biologico-literary experiment" -- A novel of care -- The welfare state -- From pastoral care to biopolitics -- Elizabeth Costello's "biologico-literary experiment" -- The politics of companionship -- Bare life and the camps in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go -- Exploding care -- Biopolitics in Never let me go -- The novel as a camp -- Aesthetics of existence -- Life-writing in Paul Auster's The book of illusions -- Creation and destruction -- Life-stories (Sadism and the novel) -- The inner life of Martin Frost -- History's remains -- "Just being": on Tom McCarthy's Remainder -- Very little, almost nothing -- The pharmacology of re-enactment -- "Strategy of the real" -- The re-enactment of the novel (Re-enactment and politics) -- Synecdoche, New York -- Conclusion: Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to her as a narrative of care -- Narrative coma -- Care and gender -- Rebellions of care.

ISBN

• 9781441149992 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1441149996 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012035938

OCLC

• 811137275
• SCSB-11519604

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library