Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction

Exceptional Intercourse
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-48588-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3594 g

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 Daviesprovides 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface – The Human Stain.- Introduction: Exceptionality.- Hymenality – On Chesil Beach.- Incestuous Implications – Gertrude and Claudius.- Sexual Sets – The Act of Love.- Exceptional Existences – Room.-
Notes.- Bibliography.- Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).