Melancholy and the archive : trauma, memory, and history in the contemporary novel / Jonathan Boulter

• Autore: Boulter Jonathan <1967->
• Pubblicazione: London ; New York, : Continuum, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.93353
• Soggetto topico: Melancholy in literature; Memory in literature; Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-203) and index
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Part I: The Material Archive -- 1. Archiving Trauma: Paul Auster -- 2. Burying History: Haruki Murakami -- Part II: The Imaginary Archive -- 3. Humanizing History: David Mitchell -- 4. Archiving Melancholy: Jose Saramago -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers (David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Jose Saramago). The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory the archive becomes a central trope here and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami) becomes the means by which the self attempts to pr
• Titolo autorizzato: Melancholy and the archive
• ISBN: 1-4411-8535-6; 1-4725-4263-0; 1-283-11420-8; 9786613114204; 1-4411-5216-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790035003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum literary studies.