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Jeff Noon's "Vurt" - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Jeff Noon's "Vurt" - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon's iconoclastic debut
novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel,
which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers
how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its
constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric
setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype
for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the
structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the
novel's content, form, and theme. Finally, Wenaus makes the case
for Vurt's ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era
increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism,
psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. With Vurt, Noon begins
his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking
narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. An
inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also an
optimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open
futures.
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