Berthold Schoene

Cosmopolitan Novel (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book introduces a new generation of contemporary British writers (Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor and David Mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists Arundhati Roy, James Kelman and Ian McEwan. Each chapter explores a different theoretical key concept, including 'glocality', 'glomicity', 'tour du monde', 'connectivity' and 'compearance'. Key Features:* Defines the new genre of the 'cosmopolitan novel' by reading contemporary British fiction as responsive to new global socio-economic formations* Expands knowledge of world culture, national identity, literary creativity and political agency by introducing concepts from globalisation and cosmopolitan theory into literary studies * Explores debates on Britishness and 'the contemporary' with close reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9/11/1989 and the World Trade Centre attacks on 11/9/2001 * Introduces a new generation of British writers within a complex global context by drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's work on community and creative world-formation

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748640836
• Artikelnr.: 42372164

Autorenporträt

Berthold Schoene is Professor of English and Director of the English Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (EUP, 2007) and author of The Cosmopolitan Novel (EUP, 2009) and Writing Men (EUP, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. IMAGINING COSMOPOLITICS: 1. Families against the world: Ian McEwan
2. James Kelman's cosmopolitan jeremiads
II. TOUR DU MONDE: 3. The world begins its turn with you, or how David Mitchell's novels think
III. CREATING THE WORLD: 4. Global noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru
5. Suburban worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor
Coda: the cosmopolitan imagination
Bibliography.