UID:
almafu_9961311729802883
Format:
1 online resource (VII, 167 p.)
ISBN:
9783111133997
Series Statement:
Culture & Conflict , 23
Content:
While 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.
Note:
Ph.D. Warwick 2019.
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111135106
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111132532
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783111133997
DOI:
10.1515/9783111133997
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111133997
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111133997
