LEADER 03468nam 22006975 450 001 9910586577503321 005 20230807134829.0 010 $a3-031-07029-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-07029-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7068735 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7068735 035 $a(CKB)24341816800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-07029-7 035 $a(BIP)083996218 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924341816800041 100 $a20220801d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJeff Noon's "Vurt" $eA Critical Companion /$fby Andrew C. Wenaus 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (139 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon,$x2662-8570 311 08$aPrint version: Wenaus, Andrew C. Jeff Noon's Vurt Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031070280 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Totally Feathered Up in Bottletown: Imagining Manchester -- Chapter 3: Orpheus and His Limbic Decks: Avant-Pulp Bricolage and Rites Of Passage -- Chapter 4: Fractal Narrative and Chaos Theory: The Formal and Thematic Paradox Of Escapism -- Chapter 5: What Literature Thinks: Vurt and Neuroemancipation. 330 $aThis book offers an examination of Jeff Noon?s iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the novel?s content, form, and theme. Finally, Wenaus makes the case for Vurt?s ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism, psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also an optimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures. 410 0$aPalgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon,$x2662-8570 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterary form 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aPopular music 606 $aGoth culture (Subculture) 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aLiterary Genre 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aPopular Music 606 $aGothic Studies 610 $aEnglish Literature 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterary form. 615 0$aPopular Culture. 615 0$aPopular music. 615 0$aGoth culture (Subculture). 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Genre. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 615 24$aPopular Music. 615 24$aGothic Studies. 676 $a809.3 676 $a823.92 700 $aWenaus$b Andrew C$01253116 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910586577503321 996 $aJeff Noon's Vurt$92905273 997 $aUNINA