Diseases and disorders in contemporary fiction : the syndrome syndrome / / edited by T.J. Lustig and James Peacock

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.933561
• Soggetto topico: Diseases in literature; Fiction - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LustigT. J. <1961-> PeacockJames <1970->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Bibliography ; 5. 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; Bibliography ; 9. "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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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 t
• Titolo autorizzato: Diseases and disorders in contemporary fiction
• ISBN: 0-203-06731-2; 1-299-48280-5; 1-135-07863-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452846203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; ; 10.