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Figures of Catastrophe - The Condition of Culture Novel (Hardcover)
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Figures of Catastrophe - The Condition of Culture Novel (Hardcover)
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List price R525
Loot Price R474
Discovery Miles 4 740
You Save R51 (10%)
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The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the
fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the
condition of culture novel. Reading across and against the grain of
received patterns of literary association, tracing a line from
Hardy and Forster, through Woolf, Waugh and Bowen, to Barstow,
Fowles, Rendell, Naipaul, Amis, Kureishi and Smith, he elucidates
the recurring topics and narrative logics of the genre, showing how
culture emerges as a special ground of social conflict, above all
between classes. The narrative evaluations of culture's ends-the
aspirations and the destinies of those whose lives are the subject
of these novels-grow steadily darker over time, and the writing
itself grows more introverted. A concluding discussion elicits the
characteristics of the English condition of culture novel, in an
international setting, and closes in, finally, on the central
conundrum of the genre: its uncanny reprise, in its own plane, of
the historical arc of the modern labour movement in Britain, from
its beginnings in the late nineteenth century through its post-war
heyday to the seemingly inexorable decline of recent decades.
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