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035 _a(DE-B1597)9783111133997
035 _a(DE-B1597)642478
035 _a(OCoLC)1408681533
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082 0 4 _84p
_a305.8
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBorg Cardona, Karen
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGlobal Failure and World Literature :
_bReading the Contemporary Quest Novel /
_cKaren Borg Cardona.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter,
_c[2023]
264 4 _c©2023
300 _a1 online resource (VII, 167 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aCulture & Conflict ,
_x2194-7104 ;
_v23
502 _aPh.D.
_cWarwick
_d2019.
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tContents --
_t1 Introduction: Conceptualisations of Failure and the Quest Narrative --
_t2 American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: The End of the World in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road --
_t3 Failing to Listen, Failing to Speak: Narrating Women’s Experience in Julia Kristeva’s Possessions --
_t4 Human Rights and Eurocentric Universalism: Questioning Truth and Justice in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost --
_t5 Dystopia, Erasure, and Waiting: Navigating Post-Revolutionary Egypt in Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue --
_t6 Conclusion: Reconceptualising Failure --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aWhile the contemporary era has witnessed a series of spectacular failures with severe and widespread global consequences, failure is still broadly understood on an individual level, while its broader causes and consequences receive little attention. This book reconceptualises failure as a method for characterising and critiquing systems and institutions on both a global and a local level. It defines global failure as comprising global inequality, economic crisis, and ecological disaster, and as a condition which informs and is informed by localised failure. It examines the negotiation between global and local failure in narratives of failed quests by four contemporary authors: Cormac McCarthy, Julia Kristeva, Michael Ondaatje, and Basma Abdel Aziz. As a genre, the quest narrative is associated with the idea of hard-won success. The failed quest narrative, or the narrative of the failed quest, is therefore the ideal vehicle through which to examine the socio-political and institutional conditions of failure. Primarily a contribution to the field of world literature, this book is also relevant to those with an interest in the contemporary novel, failure studies, and the quest narrative.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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653 _aWorld literature.
653 _acontemporary literature.
653 _afailure studies.
653 _aquest.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783111133997
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111133997
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