Diseases and disorders in contemporary fiction : the syndrome syndrome / edited by T.J. Lustig and James Peacock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lustig, T. J., 1961- editor.

Peacock, James, 1970- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 10.

Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diseases in literature.

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 215 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two cultures debate, the neurological turn, postmodernism and the post-postmodern, and responses to September 11th. Considering a variety of materials including mainstream literary fiction, the graphic novel, popular fiction, autobiographical writing, film, and television, contributors consider t

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table ofContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; 1. The Naturalistic Turn, the Syndrome, and the Rise of the Neo-Phenomenological Novel; Notes; Bibliography; 2. Mapping the Syndrome Novel; Notes; Bibliography; 3. From Syndrome to Sincerity: Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision; Notes; Bibliography; 4. "We learned to tell our story walking:" Tourette's and Urban Space in Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn; Notes; Bibliography

5. The Pathologies of Mobility: Time Travel as Syndrome in The Time Traveller's Wife, La Jetée and Twelve MonkeysNotes; Bibliography; Filmography; 6. Syndrome, Symptom, and Trauma Chains in American Pre-and Post-9/11 Novels; Bibliography; 7. Mind and Brain: The Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis' Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday; Notes; Bibliography; 8. "Two-way traffic"? Syndrome as Symbol in Richard Powers' The Echo Maker; Notes; Bibliography

9. "I wanted unheimlich[ . . . ] but of the right kind. Strangeness and Strangerness without the blank despair:" Trauma and Travel in the Works of Jenny DiskiNotes; Bibliography; 10. The Human Condition?; Bibliography; Filmography; 11. A Psychiatrist's Opinion of the Neuronovel; Bibliography; Annotated Bibliography of Primary Materials; Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials; Glossary; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9781135078621

1135078629

9780203067314

0203067312

9781299482807

1299482805

9781135078638

1135078637

OCLC:

841769276