Scenes of Intimacy (eBook, ePUB)

Reading, Writing and Theorizing Contemporary Literature
Redaktion: Cooke, Jennifer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scenes of Intimacy analyzes the representation of acts and relationships of intimacy in contemporary literature, the effect this has upon readers, and the ways these representations resonate with, complement, and challenge the concerns of contemporary theory. Opening with an in-depth interview with literary critic, Derridean, and novelist Professor Nicholas Royle, the volume contains eleven further essays that move from intimate scenes of familial and pedagogic legacy, on to representations of love, of sex, and finally to scenes of death and dying. The essays are textually attentive to how literary techniques create intimacy, and draw upon new and notable theoretical positions and critics from queer theory, affect studies, psychoanalysis, poststructualism and deconstruction to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions about intimacy and its representation. Across the genres of poetry, autobiography, journals, love letters, short stories and novels, Scenes of Intimacy shows that contemporary literature poses new possibilities and questions about our intimate relationalities, their failures and their futures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441101822
• Artikelnr.: 38304434

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Cooke is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK. She is the author of Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Intimate Scene-Setting \ 1. Making a Scene: Towards an Introductory Anatomy of Contemporary Literary Intimacies
Jennifer Cooke \ 2. Professor Nicholas Royle in Interview with Jennifer Cooke: The Intimacies of Theory and Fiction: on Telepathy
Veering and Quilt
Jennifer Cooke \ Part II: Legacies
Love
Sex and Death: Scenes of Intimate Reading and Writing \ 3. Reading the Intimacies of Shame in Edwidge Danticat's Breath
Eyes
Memory ¿ Elina Valovirta \ 4. Citation as Intimacy in Janet Frame's Work
Sylvie Gambaudo \ 5. Poetic Intimacy
Poetic Legacy: Keston Sutherland and J. H. Prynne
Aaron Deveson \ 6. Textual Intimacies: Letters
Journals
Poetry
Simon Smith and Felicity Allen \ 7. The Ethics of Everyday Intimacy: Talking about Love in Raymond Carver
Catherine Humble \ 8. Rebecca Brown
Intimate: A Literary Response to Stereotypes about Gender and Lesbian Sexuality
Lies Xhonneux \ 9. Impersonal Intimacies: Echoes of Bataille in Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach
Jill Marsden \ 10. "Dear Osama": Trauma
Kindness and Impersonal Intimacy in Chris Cleave's Incendiary
Reina van der Wiel \ 11. Breast Cancer Autopathographies: The Law of the Body and the Body of the Law
Helen Thomas \ Bibliography \ Index