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Addiction, representation and the experimental novel, 1985-2015 /
The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
[20201]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Bearing Witness: leaving las Vegas (1990)
- Taking the Addict's Voice
- Reclaiming the Addict's Voice
- Listening to the Addict
- Learning from the Addict
- Blacking Out
- Bearing Witness
- Finding Beauty in the Ruins
- Chapter 2 Betraying: Dope (2006)
- A "Woman Set between Contending Forces"
- "I'd Been Places, and Far Too Many of Them"
- (Not) "in a Realm of Deferred Repentance"
- "Poor, Invisible Nadine"
- A Powerful Reimagining of the Noir Form
- Chapter 3 Gaslighting: The Girl On The Train (2015)
- "I Am Not the Girl I Used to Be"
- "Do You Know How Idiotic [...] Damien Felt?"
- "Please, Rachel. You've Got to Sort Yourself Out."
- "Something Happened. Something Bad."
- "Everything Is a Lie"
- A Figure for Readers' Own Identity
- Chapter 4 Transgressing: Less Than Zero (1985)
- Black Neon: Exploitative Self-Flagellation
- Transgressive Fiction: The New as Shocking
- Less Than Zero as Transgressive
- Only Stubble: The Mirror as Site of Self-Examination
- Compassionate Listening
- Chapter 5 Disorienting: The Orange Eats Creeps (2010)
- Deformation of Language
- Inconsistency of Tropes
- Disorientation of Readers
- Awakening of Compassion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.