Failure: The Humble Narrative of Unsuccessfulness in Late Modernist Fiction

British, Irish and Postcolonial Novels and Stories

AvBarbara Puschmann-Nalenz,Rüdiger Ahrens

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del 65 i serien Anglo-Amerikanische Studien - Anglo-American Studies

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Beskrivning

Failure as a pervasive occurrence in life has rarely been investigated by sociology, even though the collapse of plans, unattainability of goals and breakdown of vital relationships are ordinary experiences. The study of early-21st-century fiction reveals that imaginative literature at present explores the lacunae of failure, disillusionment and collapse as central narrative themes. About fifty years after Samuel Beckett, in whose works the failing of expression became a major concern, postmillennial narratives expose disruption or defeat as subject matter and literary trope. Unheroic failure as a motif makes its variegated appearance in diverse areas of human life such as love, religion, art, and social community. The narratives explore it as the individual’s participation in common humanity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-27
Mått:148 x 210 x 0 mm
Vikt:349 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anglo-Amerikanische Studien - Anglo-American Studies
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Peter Lang AG
ISBN:9783631826324

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Professor Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz taught English and American literature and cultural studies as a senior lecturer in the English Department at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, until 2011. Her research interests are mainly in the fields of early modern literature, especially Shakespeare, and contemporary fiction.

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Introduction: The Cultural Context of the Failure Theme inFiction, and the Purpose of this Study I. Human Failure Narrative Identity and Failure in Short Fiction Failure in the Novel: A Small Tale, Generally of Love The Trivial, and the Novel as ‘a Small Tale’ Personal Failure and the Political (I): Irish Fictions Failure and the Observance of the Ordinary Personal and the Political (II): Postcolonial Results: Failure, Identity, and the Ordinary Transitional Section: Failing Aspirations of Humanism II. Failure and the Artist The Failing Artist in a Short Story Cycle The Fictional Artist and His Failing in the Novel Intermediate Results Partial Failure: Divergence of Art and Life Failure and Triumph of the Fictional Artist in the Novel: A Paradox Irony and Black Humour: Artistic Failure vs. Celebrity Success and Failure in 21st-Century Biofictions Conclusion