現代イギリス文学における注意の詩学と倫理 The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

Ganteau, Jean-Michel

Routledge（2022/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032423203
• DDC分類 823.9140923

Full Description

This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an "ecology of attention" (Citton) based on poetic options whose pragmatic effect is to develop an ethics of the particularist type. To do this, I draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: psychology, but also more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, and analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the ethics of care and vulnerability. By using a selection of fictional and non-fictional narratives, I address such issues as social invisibilities, climate change, AI and cognitive disability and end up drafting a poetics of attention.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction




The Attention Economy



A Relatively Recent Category



An Ethical Apparatus



Attention to the Ordinary



Turning towards Literature

Chapter 1: Social Invisibilities




Refugee Tales




Showing



Ghosting



Caring



Raging






Exploring the Closet




Visibilities



Shifting Perceptions



Ending with a Whimper




Wandering with Intent




Investigating the Ordinary



What Matters



Chapter 2: Embedded Visibilities




Seeing the Land




Observing What Is Lost



The Anti-Pastoral



Relationalities



Inventorying




On the Same Spectrum




Collecting the Mundane



Perceptual Realism



Consideration(s)




Discordant Scales




Echoes and Portents



Acknowledging the Anthropocene



Inescapable Entanglements



Chapter 3: Of (Wo)men and Machines




The Time Will Come...




A Time Out of Joint



Machines That Mimic Minds?



Quandaries



Beyond Exceptionalism?






Artificial Perception

1. An Unwonted Focus

2. AI Vulnerability

3. Machine Vigilance

Chapter 4: Disabled Brains




Linguistic Impairment




Varying Attentional Tides



Perceptual Immediacy



An "Ethics from Down Under"




Autobiography and Cognitive Disability




Doubles



Oscillations



Relationality über alles



Conclusion

References

Index