03560oam 2200529 450 991077968260332120190911100039.01-135-07862-90-203-06731-21-299-48280-51-135-07863-710.4324/9780203067314 (OCoLC)841769276(MiFhGG)GVRL8PQT(EXLCZ)99255000000102031020130110d2013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrDiseases and disorders in contemporary fiction the syndrome syndrome /edited by T.J. Lustig and James PeacockNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (vi, 215 pages)Routledge studies in contemporary literature ;10Description based upon print version of record.1-138-54799-9 0-415-50740-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table ofContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; 1. The Naturalistic Turn, the Syndrome, and the Rise of the Neo-Phenomenological Novel; Notes; Bibliography; 2. Mapping the Syndrome Novel; Notes; Bibliography; 3. From Syndrome to Sincerity: Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision; Notes; Bibliography; 4. "We learned to tell our story walking:" Tourette's and Urban Space in Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn; Notes; Bibliography5. The Pathologies of Mobility: Time Travel as Syndrome in The Time Traveller's Wife, La Jetée and Twelve MonkeysNotes; Bibliography; Filmography; 6. Syndrome, Symptom, and Trauma Chains in American Pre-and Post-9/11 Novels; Bibliography; 7. Mind and Brain: The Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis' Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday; Notes; Bibliography; 8. "Two-way traffic"? Syndrome as Symbol in Richard Powers' The Echo Maker; Notes; Bibliography9. "I wanted unheimlich[ . . . ] but of the right kind. Strangeness and Strangerness without the blank despair:" Trauma and Travel in the Works of Jenny DiskiNotes; Bibliography; 10. The Human Condition?; Bibliography; Filmography; 11. A Psychiatrist's Opinion of the Neuronovel; Bibliography; Annotated Bibliography of Primary Materials; Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials; Glossary; List of Contributors; IndexThe essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two cultures debate, the neurological turn, postmodernism and the post-postmodern, and responses to September 11th. Considering a variety of materials including mainstream literary fiction, the graphic novel, popular fiction, autobiographical writing, film, and television, contributors consider tRoutledge studies in contemporary literature ;10.Diseases in literatureFictionHistory and criticismDiseases in literature.FictionHistory and criticism.809/.933561Lustig T. J.1961-Peacock James1970-MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910779682603321Diseases and disorders in contemporary fiction3870721UNINA