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

Other author Lustig, T. J., 1961- editor.
Other author Peacock, James, 1970- editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Descriptionvi, 215 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Diseases in literature.
Fiction--History and criticism.

SeriesRoutledge studies in contemporary literature ; 10
Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 10. ^A1004019
Contents Introduction / T.J. Lustig and James Peacock -- The Naturalistic Turn, the Syndrome, and the Rise of the Neo-Phenomenological Novel / Patricia Waugh -- Mapping the Syndrome Novel / Stephen J. Burn -- From Syndrome to Sincerity : Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision / Adam Kelly -- "We learned to tell our story walking." Tourette's and Urban Space in Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn / James Peacock -- The Pathologies of Mobility : time travel as syndrome in The Time-Traveller's Wife / La Jetée, and Twelve Monkeys / Brian Baker -- Syndrome, Symptom and Trauma Chains in American Pre- and Post-9/11 Novels / Bent Sørensen -- Mind and Brain : The Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday / Nick Bentley -- "Two way traffic?" Syndrome as Symbol in Richard Powers' The Echo Maker / T.J. Lustig -- "I wanted unheimlich ... but of the right kind. Strangeness and Strangerness without the blank despair" : Trauma and Travel in the Works of Jenny Diski / Joanna Price -- The Human Condition? / Martyn Bracewell -- A Psychiatrist's Opinion of the Neuronovel / Lisetta Lovett -- Annotated Bibliography I: Primary Materials / Nicola Brindley -- Annotated Bibliography II: Secondary Materials / Hannah Merry -- List of Contributors -- Glossary.
Abstract "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 the contemporary dimensions of the interface between the sciences and humanities, developing the debate about the post-postmodern as a new humanism or a return to realism and investigating questions of form and genre, and of literary continuities and discontinuities. Further, the essays discuss contemporary writers' attempts to engage the relation between the individual and the social, looking at the relation between the "syndrome syndrome" (referring to the prevalence in contemporary literature of neurological phenomena evident at the biological level) and existing work in the field of trauma studies (where explanations tend to have taken a psychoanalytical form), allowing for perspectives that question some of the assumptions that have marked both these fields. The current literary preoccupation with neurological conditions presents us with a new and distinctive form of trauma literature, one concerned less with psychoanalysis than with the physical and evolutionary status of human beings"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2012046124
ISBN9780415507400 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0415507405 (hardback : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40022233496

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