Utopia and the contemporary British novel

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Utopia and the contemporary British novel

Caroline Edwards

（Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture）

Cambridge University Press, 2019

  • : hardback

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Bibliography: p. 239-253

Includes index

On USMARC: Summary: "This book explores the narrative treatment of time from a philosophical perspective. I will be concerned with how the experience of lived time, or temporality, functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal the persistence of the utopian imagination in the twenty-first century. Central to this book is the assertion that utopian expression not only persists within the twenty-first-century novel, but is shaping an emerging body of fictions whose shared interrogation of lived and historical time reveals a series of radically nonlinear, disjunct, pluralised and alternative temporal constructions. The writers I have selected for inclusion within this study represent a renaissance of British literary talent in the contemporary period that cuts across different generations."--Provided by publisher

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内容説明

This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal the persistence of the utopian imagination in the twenty-first century. Through close textual analysis, Edwards develops a new strategy of reading such anticipatory 'fictions of the not yet', including novels by Hari Kunzru, Maggie Gee, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Jim Crace, Joanna Kavenna, Grace McCleen, Jon McGregor, and Claire Fuller. Read in the context of the philosophical category of non-contemporaneity, these novels reveal a significant new direction in twenty-first-century fiction. Their formal inventiveness and suggestively non-mimetic encounters with otherwise realist narrative representations of contemporary experience open up a realm of utopian possibility that shines through in moments of temporal alterity: glimpses of the future, redeemed strands of past hopes, and alternative social worlds already alive in the present.

目次

  • 1. Introduction: daily into the blue
  • 2. Reading fictions of the not yet
  • 3. Death: moments of possibility
  • 4. Transmigration: networking utopian times
  • 5. Apocalypse: co-evolutionary futures
  • 6. Epilogue: world as home.

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