TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schoene,Berthold
TI  - The Cosmopolitan Novel
SN  - 9780748638154
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; I. Imagining Cosmopolitics --; Chapter 1. Families against the World: Ian McEwan --; Chapter 2. James Kelman’s Cosmopolitan Jeremiads --; II. Tour du Monde --; Chapter 3. The World Begins Its Turn with You, or How David Mitchell’s Novels Think --; III. Creating the World --; Chapter 4. Global Noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru --; Chapter 5. Suburban Worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor --; Coda: The Cosmopolitan Imagination --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book introduces a new generation of contemporary British writers (Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor and David Mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists Arundhati Roy, James Kelman and Ian McEwan. Each chapter explores a different theoretical key concept, including 'glocality', 'glomicity', 'tour du monde', 'connectivity' and 'compearance'.Key FeaturesDefines the new genre of the 'cosmopolitan novel' by reading contemporary British fiction as responsive to new global socio-economic formationsExpands knowledge of world culture, national identity, literary creativity and political agency by introducing concepts from globalisation and cosmopolitan theory into literary studiesExplores debates on Britishness and 'the contemporary' with close reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9/11/1989 and the World Trade Centre attacks on 11/9/2001 Introduces a new generation of British writers within a complex global context, drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's work on community and creative world-formation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748640836?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748640836
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