The poetics of fragmentation in contemporary British and American fiction / edited by Vanessa Guignery and Wojciech Dra̜g.

• The last decades have seen a revival of fragmentation in British and American works of fiction that deny linearity, coherence and continuity in favour of disruption, gaps and fissures. Authors such as Ali Smith, David Mitchell and David Shields have sought new ways of representing our global, media-satured contemporary experience which differ from modernist and postmodernist experimentations from which the writers nevertheless draw inspiration. This volume aims to investigate some of the most important contributions to fragmentary literature from British and American writers since the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on texts released in the twenty-first century. The chapters within examine whether contemporary forms of literary fragmentation constitute a return to the modernist episteme or the fragmented literature of exhaustion of the 1960s, mark a continuity with postmodernist aesthetics or signal a deviation from past models and an attempt to reflect today's accelerated culture of social media and over-communication. Contributors theorise and classify literary fragments, examine the relationship between fragmentation and the Zeitgeist (influenced by globalisation, media saturation and social networks), analyse the mechanics of multimodal and multimedial fictions, and consider the capacity of literary fragmentation to represent personal or collective trauma and to address ethical concerns. They also investigate the ways in which the architecture of the printed book is destabilised and how aesthetic processes involving fragmentation, bricolage and/or collage raise ontological, ethical and epistemological questions about the globalised contemporary world we live and its relation to the self and the other. Besides the aforementioned authors, the volume makes reference to the works of J.G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Mark Z. Danielewski, David Markson, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Foster Wallace, Jeanette Winterson and several others. 

Ämnesord

Unfinished books.  (LCSH)

English fiction  -- 21st century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American fiction  -- 21st century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Experimental fiction, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Experimental fiction, American  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American fiction.  (fast)

English fiction.  (fast)

Experimental fiction, American.  (fast)

Experimental fiction, English.  (fast)

Unfinished books.  (fast)

Roman anglais  -- Histoire et critique -- 21e siècle. (ram)

Roman américain  -- Histoire et critique -- 21e siècle. (ram)

Nouvelles anglaises  -- Histoire et critique -- 21e siècle. (ram)

Nouvelles américaines  -- Histoire et critique -- 21e siècle. (ram)

Littérature expérimentale anglaise  -- Histoire et critique. (ram)

Littérature expérimentale américaine  -- Histoire et critique. (ram)

Engelska romaner  -- historia (sao)

Amerikanska romaner  -- historia (sao)

Engelsk experimentell litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Amerikansk experimentell litteratur  -- historia (sao)

2000-talet  (sao)

2000-2099  (fast)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Klassifikation

823.920911 (DDC)