Description
| Product ID: | 9781785276132 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985–2015 |
| Authors: | Author: Heath A. Diehl |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered. Since the nineteenth century, the Western realistic novel has persistently represented the addict as a morally toxic force bent on destroying the institutions, practices, and ideologies that historically have connoted reason, order, civilization. Addiction, Representation undertakes an investigation into an alternative literary tradition that unsettles this limited portrayal of the addict. The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to both diegetic and extra-diegetic addicts—an approach that, at its core, is focused on understanding. |
| Imprint Name: | Anthem Press |
| Publisher Name: | Anthem Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-12-15 |