Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction (eBook)
XVIII, 178 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-48589-2 (ISBN)
Combining close readings of literature and theory, Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction opens up new ways to consider the sex-time-space nexus. In an exciting and compelling contribution to contemporary literary studies, this book takes the concept of 'exceptionality' as its point of departure as developed through an exploration of Giorgio Agamben's theory of the state of exception and the work of theorists including Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. Through an analysis of a range of widely read contemporary fiction, including On Chesil Beach, Gertrude and Claudius, The Act of Love and Room, Ben Davies provides a rigorous exploration of narrative form and offers original theories of the prequel, narrative relations in terms of set theory, and the practice of reading itself.
Ben Davies is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the co-editor of Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Combining close readings of literature and theory, Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction opens up new ways to consider the sex-time-space nexus. In an exciting and compelling contribution to contemporary literary studies, this book takes the concept of 'exceptionality' as its point of departure as developed through an exploration of Giorgio Agamben's theory of the state of exception and the work of theorists including Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. Through an analysis of a range of widely read contemporary fiction, including On Chesil Beach, Gertrude and Claudius, The Act of Love and Room, Ben Davies provides a rigorous exploration of narrative form and offers original theories of the prequel, narrative relations in terms of set theory, and the practice of reading itself.
Ben Davies is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the co-editor of Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface – The Human Stain
1 Introduction: Exceptionality
Agamben’s State of Exception
Exceptional Sex
Novels and Norms, Transgression and Perversion
Textual Exceptionalities
Exceptional Textuality
2 Hymenality – On Chesil Beach
The Heterotopic Hymen Hymenal Space Ejaculatory Ejection
Hymenal Time
Historical Time, Exceptional Rupture
3 Incestuous Implications – Gertrude and Claudius
Iterations
Adulterous Parallelism
Abandonment
Re-iterations
The Incestuous Prequel
4 Sexual Sets – The Act of Love
The (Extra)Marital Set Subset A. (Extra)Marital Exceptions:
A.1 Time and Space
A.2 Subspace A.3 The Abandonment of (Extra)Marital Law Subset B. The Narratorial Set:
B.1 Self-Exception B.2 Storytelling B.3 The Reader
5 Exceptional Existences – Room
‘Room just is’: Time and Space
“What’s normal?”
Jack and the Wolf
Coda: ‘like in a book’
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.8.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 178 p. |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | British and Irish Literature • Contemporary literature • exceptionality • Sex • Time • Twentieth-Century Literature |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-48589-2 / 1137485892 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-48589-2 / 9781137485892 |
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