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Bloomsbury Academic Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture

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Review Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture is an original and impressive collection of thoughtfully argued essays. Using a common language drawn from recent theories of precarity and precaritization, the contributors explore themes of risk, uncertainty, and vulnerability across a broad array of genres that include fiction, poetry, film, and theatre. The collection offers a searing indictment of the ravages of neoliberalism, and it thinks creatively about how aesthetic experimentation can make these ravages evident and, potentially, remediable.Benjamin Bateman, University of Edinburgh, UK Product Description The contemporary moment is characterized by precarity – an expanding and intensifying vulnerability conditioned by political and economic structures. Using literary and cultural texts to develop a nuanced and critical exploration of the concept of precarity that emphasizes its contemporary manifestations while also attending to its historical roots and existential dimensions, this book examines the vulnerabilities which characterize our anxious existence, including unemployment, environmental crisis, temporary contracts and patterns of migration. Broken down into three key themes of feelings, bodies and time, Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture asks whether precarity can be considered a new phenomenon; explores the relationship between precarity and traditional class politics; analyses precarity’s global dimensions; and reflects on the links between contemporary crisis and underlying existential human vulnerability. With reference to a wide range of forms such as contemporary, realist, science fiction and modernist novels, film, theatre, and the lyric poem, this book goes beyond one national context to consider texts from the US, UK, Germany and South Africa. About the Author Emily J Hogg is Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark. She has contributed to many journals and books including Textual Practice, English Studies, The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal, The Routledge Companion to Twenty First Century Literary Fiction, edited by Robert Eaglestone and Daniel O’Gorman (2019), and New Feminist Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Interventions, edited by Jennifer Cooke (2020).Peter Simonsen is Professor of European Literature at the University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts (2007) and several related articles on Romanticism, ekphrasis and textual materiality. In 2014 he published (in Danish) Lifelong Lives, a study of fiction about old age and the welfare state. Peter was co-editor of Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis published by Bloomsbury in 2017.

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Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1350166707
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
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Release Date: 20 May 2021
Listed Since: 06 October 2020

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