The cosmopolitan novel / Berthold Schoene.

By:

Schoene-Harwood, Berthold

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780748640836
0748640835
0748651799
9780748651795
1282703099
9781282703094
9786612703096
6612703091

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cosmopolitan novel.DDC classification:

823.91409 22

LOC classification:

PN56.C683 S36 2009eb

Other classification:

18.05
18.07
HN 1301
HN 1361
EC 5410

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Contents:

Imagining cosmopolitics. Families against the world : Ian McEwan ; James Kelman's cosmopolitan jeremiads -- Tour de monde. The world begins its turn with you, or how David Mitchell's novels think -- Creating the world. Global noise : Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru ; Suburban worlds : Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor -- Coda: The cosmopolitan imagination.

Summary: While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book introduces a new generation of contemporary British writers (Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor and David Mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists Arundhati Roy, James Kelman and Ian McEwan. Each chapter explores a different theoretical key concept, including 'glocality', 'glomicity', 'tour du monde', 'connectivity' and 'compearance'. Key Features Defines the new genre of the 'cosmopolitan novel' by reading contemporary British fiction as responsive to new global socio-economic formations Expands knowledge of world culture, national identity, literary creativity and political agency by introducing concepts from globalisation and cosmopolitan theory into literary studies Explores debates on Britishness and 'the contemporary' with close reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9/11/1989 and the World Trade Centre attacks on 11/9/2001 Introduces a new generation of British writers within a complex global context, drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's work on community and creative world-formation

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.

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While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book introduces a new generation of contemporary British writers (Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor and David Mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists Arundhati Roy, James Kelman and Ian McEwan. Each chapter explores a different theoretical key concept, including 'glocality', 'glomicity', 'tour du monde', 'connectivity' and 'compearance'. Key Features Defines the new genre of the 'cosmopolitan novel' by reading contemporary British fiction as responsive to new global socio-economic formations Expands knowledge of world culture, national identity, literary creativity and political agency by introducing concepts from globalisation and cosmopolitan theory into literary studies Explores debates on Britishness and 'the contemporary' with close reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9/11/1989 and the World Trade Centre attacks on 11/9/2001 Introduces a new generation of British writers within a complex global context, drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's work on community and creative world-formation

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