Name: Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985–2015
SKU: 53212585
Price: 1941.00 ZAR
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Author: Heath A. Diehl
ISBN: 9781785276132

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Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985–2015

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Anthem Pr

Author

Heath A. Diehl

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781785276132

Synopsis "Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985–2015"

Since the nineteenth century, the Western realistic novel has persistently represented the addict as a morally toxic force bent on destroying the institutions, practices, and ideologies that historically have connoted reason, order, civilization. Addiction, Representation undertakes an investigation into an alternative literary tradition that unsettles this limited portrayal of the addict. 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 both diegetic and extra-diegetic addicts―an approach that, at its core, is focused on understanding.