Literary representations of precarious work, 1840 to the present. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michiel Rys, Bart Philipsen.
• Editors: Rys, Michiel; Philipsen, Bart
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction. Poetics and Precarity. Literary Representations of Precarious Work, Past and Present.- Chapter 2: Precarity and Privilege in State-of-the-Nation Novels. Anatomy of a Fragmented Body Politic.- Chapter 3: Precarity and Privilege in State-of-the-Nation Novels. Anatomy of a Fragmented Body Politic.- Chapter 4: . Slums, the Lumpenproletariat, and Precarity. Literary Representations of the Urban Precarious in Egon Erwin Kisch and Ilija Trojanow's Reportages.- Chapter 5: The Impossibility of Protest. Precarity in Maria Leitner's Reportage Novel Hotel Amerika.- Chapter 6: Precarity, Working-Class Literature, and the Written Presence of Objects. A Material Reading of Lucien Bourgeois' L'Ascension.- Chapter 7: At Home on the Stage. Towards an Affective Geography of Gentrification and Eviction in U.S. Cities.- Chapter 8: Common Language: Academics Against Networking and the Poetics of Precarity.- Chapter 9: Writing the Voices of Precarity in Contemporary French Literature.- Chapter 10: Working Oneself to Death. Interview with Heike Geißler about Seasonal Associate (2014).- Chapter 11: The Side-by-Side Existence of Total Catastrophe and Everyday Life Is the Real.' Interview with Kathrin Röggla about Precarity and the Grammar of Catastrophes.- Chapter 12: Precarious Authorship in the Digital Society: Literary Value Chains and Kathrin Röggla's 'Essenpoetik'.- Chapter 13: Towards a Poetics of Precarity: Labor Spheres in Contemporary European Fiction.- Chapter 14: The Character of Risk.- Chapter 15: To Be or Not to Be a Laborer: Three Swedish Novels about Young Adults, Temporary Employment and the Precariat's Consciousness.- Chapter 16: Neighboring with the Roofless. Imagin(in)g Homeless Others.- Chapter 17: In Real Time: Phenomenologies of Precarity in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet.- Chapter 18: Coda. Narrating Precarity in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.034; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Precarious employment in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030881740
• Related ISBNs: 9783030881733
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