The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction
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Download or read book The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by trauma studies and the ethics of literature, this book visits vulnerability in the contemporary British novel, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Chapters on romance, elegy, the ghost story, and the state-of-the-nation novel draw from the fields including trauma studies, affect theory, the ethics of alterity, the ethics of care, and the ethics of vulnerability. Showcasing how the contemporary novel is the privileged site of the expression and performance of vulnerability and vulnerable form, the volume broaches a poetics of vulnerability based on categories such as testimony, loss, unknowing, temporal disarray, and performance.


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