Narrative care : biopolitics and the novel /: biopolitics and the novel. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Arne De Boever.
• Authors: De Boever, Arne
• Contents: Introduction: Towards a pharmacology of the novel -- The moment of narrative care -- A pharmacological theory of care -- A biopolitical history of the novel -- After ethics: reading Sebald's images -- J.M. Coetzee and the obscene -- J.M. Coetzee's Slow man as "a biologico-literary experiment" -- A novel of care -- The welfare state -- From pastoral care to biopolitics -- Elizabeth Costello's "biologico-literary experiment" -- The politics of companionship -- Bare life and the camps in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go -- Exploding care -- Biopolitics in Never let me go -- The novel as a camp -- Aesthetics of existence -- Life-writing in Paul Auster's The book of illusions -- Creation and destruction -- Life-stories (Sadism and the novel) -- The inner life of Martin Frost -- History's remains -- "Just being": on Tom McCarthy's Remainder -- Very little, almost nothing -- The pharmacology of re-enactment -- "Strategy of the real" -- The re-enactment of the novel (Re-enactment and politics) -- Synecdoche, New York -- Conclusion: Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to her as a narrative of care -- Narrative coma -- Care and gender -- Rebellions of care.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 181 pages)
• Subjects: 809.3/051; Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Ethics in literature; Biopolitics; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Biopolitics; Ethics in literature; Fiction; Biopolitik; Englisch; Roman; Fürsorge; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441144720; 1441144722
• Related ISBNs: 9781441149992; 1441149996
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.