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Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction - The Syndrome Syndrome (Hardcover, New)
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Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction - The Syndrome Syndrome (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
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The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation
with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary
literature by British and American writers. The book places these
fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical
context, exploring such topics as the two cultures debate, the
neurological turn, postmodernism and the post-postmodern, and
responses to September 11th. Considering a variety of materials
including mainstream literary fiction, the graphic novel, popular
fiction, autobiographical writing, film, and television,
contributors consider the contemporary dimensions of the interface
between the sciences and humanities, developing the debate about
the post-postmodern as a new humanism or a return to realism and
investigating questions of form and genre, and of literary
continuities and discontinuities. Further, the essays discuss
contemporary writers' attempts to engage the relation between the
individual and the social, looking at the relation between the
"syndrome syndrome" (referring to the prevalence in contemporary
literature of neurological phenomena evident at the biological
level) and existing work in the field of trauma studies (where
explanations tend to have taken a psychoanalytical form), allowing
for perspectives that question some of the assumptions that have
marked both these fields. The current literary preoccupation with
neurological conditions presents us with a new and distinctive form
of trauma literature, one concerned less with psychoanalysis than
with the physical and evolutionary status of human beings.
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