Subject of the Event: Reagency in the American Novel after 2000 9781501317125

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Автор: Sebastian Huber
Название: Subject of the Event: Reagency in the American Novel after 2000
ISBN: 9781501317125
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Литературоведение: с 1900 г.

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 1501317121
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 328
Вес: 0.61 кг.
Дата издания: 05.05.2016
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 229 x 152 x 19
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: Literary theory,Literary studies: from c 1900 -, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General,LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Основная тема: Literature & literary studies,LITERARY CRITICISM / General,LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General,LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory,Literary studies: general,Literary studies: from c 1900 -,Literary theory
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In the light of postmodernisms programmatic critique of a humanist notion of the subject and an emphatic understanding of events, Subject of the Event shows that selected American novels after 2000 offer an alternative to the death of the subject.+?

As the first book to comprehensively engage with Alain Badious writings outside of a philosophical context, Subject of the Event analyzes five critically acclaimed novels of the new millennium-Cormac McCarthys The Road (2006), Jess Walters The Zero (2006), Mark Z. Danielewskis Only Revolutions (2006), Paul Beattys Slumberland (2008) and Thomas Pynchons Against the Day (2006)-and argues that they create different subjects of the event that are empowered with reagency.+? The subject of the event+? and its empowerment, what this book calls reagency, +? implies that subjects only evolve out of their confrontation with the revolutionary impetus that events propel. Unlike a humanist capability of having agency, reagency is defined as a repetitive subjective praxis that is contingent upon events, which is given a concrete literary form in the novels under investigation. Sebastian Huber explores how the American penchant for events (new beginnings, +? clean slates, +? apocalypse+?) is being critically dealt with in the novels at hand, while still offering an emphatic idea of singular disruptions that open up ways for subjects to affirm and become empowered by the new propositions of these happenings.
Дополнительное описание: Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: America’s Subjects of Events Chapter 1. The Question of the Event and the Question(s) of the Subject Chapter 2. ‘You have to carry the fire’: The Reactive Subject in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006

Subject of the Event: Reagency in the American Novel after 2000, Sebastian Huber