The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative

ISBN-13: 9781032423203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Jean-Michel Ganteau

Opis

It addresses the changes mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting them to the tyranny of a new attention economy to show how the contemporary novel and memoir evince resilience by promoting an ecology of attention whose poetics help develop an ethics of the particularist type

O autorze

Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (France) and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is the editor of the journal Études britanniques contemporaines. He is the author of four monographs: David Lodge: le choix de l’éloquence (2001), Peter Ackroyd et la musique du passé (2008) and The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Literature (2015), The Aesthetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative (Routledge 2023). He has published extensively on contemporary British fiction, with a special interest in the ethics of affects trauma criticism and theory, and the ethics of vulnerability, in France and abroad (other European countries, the United States), in the form of chapters in edited volumes or articles in such journals as Miscelánea, Anglia, Symbolism, The Cambridge Quarterly, and so on.