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Experimental fiction --- Myth in literature --- Roman expérimental --- Mythe dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Ackroyd, Peter, --- Experimental fiction, English --- Myth in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Roman expérimental --- Mythe dans la littérature

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Contemporary works of art that remodel the canon not only create complex, hybrid and plural products but also alter our perceptions and understanding of their source texts. This is the dual process, referred to in this volume as “refraction”, that the essays collected here set out to discuss and analyse by focusing on the dialectic rapport between postmodernism and the canon. What is sought in many of the essays is a redefinition of postmodernist art and a re-examination of the canon in the light of contemporary epistemology. Given this dual process, this volume will be of value both to everyone interested in contemporary art—particularly fiction, drama and film—and also to readers whose aim it is to promote a better appreciation of canonical British literature.

English literature --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism --- History --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Great Britain --- 20th century --- Cinéma et littérature --- English literature. --- Motion pictures. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Performing arts --- History and criticism. --- Theory, etc. --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Adaptations cinematographiques et televisees --- Postmodernisme

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This volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this perspective, none of the individual works or authors under analysis in the twelve essays collected in this volume has been given such a systematic and in-depth scrutiny to date. This study, which is addressed to academics and university students of British literature and culture, focuses on the literary representation of trauma in key works by Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard, Pat Barker, John Boyne, Angela Carter, Eva Figes, Alan Hollinghurst, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, A.L. Kennedy, Ian McEwan, Michael Moorcock, Fay Weldon and Jeanette Winterson, within the context of the “ethical turn” in the related fields of literary theory and moral philosophy that has influenced literary criticism over the last three decades, with a special focus on the ethics of alterity, the ethics of truths, and deconstructive ethics.

Fiction --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- British literature --- Ethics in literature --- 820-3 "19" --- 82.04 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- 820-3 "19" Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- English fiction --- Violence --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Memory in literature --- Ethics in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature.

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Fiction --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2009

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This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and ideological to the ethical and aesthetic, and distinguishing between individual, collective, and cultural traumas. The chapters introduce complementary concepts from diverse thinkers including Cathy Caruth, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Abraham and Torok, and Joyce Carol Oates; they also draw from fields of study such as Memory Studies, Theory of Affects, Narrative and Genre Theory, and Cultural Studies. Traumatic Memory and the Political, Economic, and Transhistorical Functions of Literature addresses trauma as a culturally embedded phenomenon and deconstructs the idea of trauma as universal, transhistorical, and abstract.

Philosophy --- Cognitive psychology --- Linguistics --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- History as a science --- historiografie --- postkolonialisme --- geletterdheid --- filosofie --- literatuur --- geheugen (mensen) --- wereldliteratuur --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- European literature. --- Literature   . --- Historiography. --- Comparative Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- European Literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Memory Studies. --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- European literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Criticism --- Historiography --- History and criticism --- Literature, Modern --- Literature. --- Collective memory. --- World Literature. --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- Theory