Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster

by Jonathan Boulter

Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster delves into Maurice Blanchot's enigmatic, and deeply influential, notion of the disaster - a term Blanchot famously refuses to define. By exploring the novels of Jon McGregor, Mike McCormack, David Mitchell, Jeanette Winterson and Maggie Gee, Jonathan Boulter suggests that we can think of literature, the space of the imagination, as the place where some conception (ethical,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474499627
• ISBN13: 9781474499620
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"