LEADER 02849nam 2200385z- 450 001 9910557159803321 005 20240430233343.0 035 $a(CKB)5400000000040466 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63791 035 $a(oapen)doab63791 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000040466 100 $a20||||||d2021 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aA Stubborn Fury$eHow Writing Works in Elitist Britain 210 $cOpen Humanities Press$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (137 p.) 225 1 $aMEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW 311 08$a1-78542-092-5 330 $aTwo fifths of Britain's leading people were educated privately: that's five times the amount as in the population as a whole, with almost a quarter graduating from Oxford or Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than the remaining 2894 state schools combined, making modern Britain one of the most unequal places in Europe. In A Stubborn Fury, Gary Hall offers a powerful and provocative look at the consequences of this inequality for English culture in particular. Focusing on the literary novel and the memoir, he investigates, in terms that are as insightful as they are irreverent, why so much writing in England is uncritically realist, humanist and anti-intellectual. Hall does so by playfully rewriting two of the most acclaimed contributions to these media genres of recent times. One is that of England's foremost avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, and the importance he attaches to European modernism and antihumanist theory. The other is that of the celebrated French memoirists Didier Eribon and E?douard Louis, and their attempt to reinvent the antihumanist philosophical tradition by producing a theory that speaks about class and intersectionality, yet generates the excitement of a Kendrick Lamar concert. Experimentally pirating McCarthy, Eribon and Louis, A Stubborn Fury addresses that most urgent of questions: what can be done about English literary culture's addiction to the worldview of privileged, middle-class white men, very much to the exclusion of more radically inventive writing, including that of working-class, BAME and LGBTQIAP+ authors? 517 $aStubborn Fury 606 $aEducational: English language: reading & writing skills$2bicssc 606 $aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers$2bicssc 610 $aBritiain 610 $awriting 615 7$aEducational: English language: reading & writing skills 615 7$aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 700 $aHall$b Gary$4auth$0782344 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557159803321 996 $aA Stubborn Fury$93021627 997 $aUNINA