Utopia and the contemporary British novel / Caroline Edwards.

Edwards, Caroline, 1983-

Call Number	823/.91409
Author	Edwards, Caroline, 1983- author.
Title	Utopia and the contemporary British novel / Caroline Edwards.
Physical Description	1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series	Cambridge studies in twenty-first century literature and culture
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).
Contents	1. Introduction \| daily into the blue -- 2. Reading fictions of the not yet -- 3. Death \| moments of possibility -- Giving voice to the dead: Ali Smith's hotel world -- Miraculous cosmological time: Grace McCleen's The land of decoration -- Arresting the time of death: Jon McGregor's If nobody speaks of remarkable things -- 4. Transmigration \| networking utopian times -- Towards a networked art form: Hari Kunzru's Gods without men -- A matryoshka doll of painted moments: David Mitchell's Cloud atlas and The bone clocks -- 'A moment of gory apotheosis': birth as a wormhole in time in Joanna Kavenna's The birth of love -- 5. Apocalypse \| co-evolutionary futures -- An ambiguous pastoral epiphany: Claire Fuller's Our endless numbered days -- The problem of temporal exteriority: Maggie Gee's the flood -- The present as history: Jim Crace's The pesthouse -- Epilogue \| world as home.
Summary	This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal the persistence of the utopian imagination in the twenty-first century. Through close textual analysis, Edwards develops a new strategy of reading such anticipatory 'fictions of the not yet', including novels by Hari Kunzru, Maggie Gee, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Jim Crace, Joanna Kavenna, Grace McCleen, Jon McGregor, and Claire Fuller. Read in the context of the philosophical category of non-contemporaneity, these novels reveal a significant new direction in twenty-first-century fiction. Their formal inventiveness and suggestively non-mimetic encounters with otherwise realist narrative representations of contemporary experience open up a realm of utopian possibility that shines through in moments of temporal alterity: glimpses of the future, redeemed strands of past hopes, and alternative social worlds already alive in the present.
Subject	English fiction 21st century History and criticism. TIME IN LITERATURE. Utopias in literature.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595568

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Summary	This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal the persistence of the utopian imagination in the twenty-first century. Through close textual analysis, Edwards develops a new strategy of reading such anticipatory 'fictions of the not yet', including novels by Hari Kunzru, Maggie Gee, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Jim Crace, Joanna Kavenna, Grace McCleen, Jon McGregor, and Claire Fuller. Read in the context of the philosophical category of non-contemporaneity, these novels reveal a significant new direction in twenty-first-century fiction. Their formal inventiveness and suggestively non-mimetic encounters with otherwise realist narrative representations of contemporary experience open up a realm of utopian possibility that shines through in moments of temporal alterity: glimpses of the future, redeemed strands of past hopes, and alternative social worlds already alive in the present.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).
Contents	1. Introduction \| daily into the blue -- 2. Reading fictions of the not yet -- 3. Death \| moments of possibility -- Giving voice to the dead: Ali Smith's hotel world -- Miraculous cosmological time: Grace McCleen's The land of decoration -- Arresting the time of death: Jon McGregor's If nobody speaks of remarkable things -- 4. Transmigration \| networking utopian times -- Towards a networked art form: Hari Kunzru's Gods without men -- A matryoshka doll of painted moments: David Mitchell's Cloud atlas and The bone clocks -- 'A moment of gory apotheosis': birth as a wormhole in time in Joanna Kavenna's The birth of love -- 5. Apocalypse \| co-evolutionary futures -- An ambiguous pastoral epiphany: Claire Fuller's Our endless numbered days -- The problem of temporal exteriority: Maggie Gee's the flood -- The present as history: Jim Crace's The pesthouse -- Epilogue \| world as home.
Subject	English fiction 21st century History and criticism. TIME IN LITERATURE. Utopias in literature.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595568