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

Boulter, Jonathan

Edinburgh University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474499637
• DDC分類 194

Full Description

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, ecological, or ontological) of the disaster emerges. These novels, all in some ways about the disaster, just as they are inflected by the disaster, become the place where an understanding of critical events death, ecological catastrophe, pandemics is possible.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Prelude: J.G Ballard's Disastrous Worlds

1. Ecologies of Disaster: Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13

2. Writing Extinction: Mike McCormack's Solar Bones

3. Desire and Disaster: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

4. Posthumanism and Disaster: Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods

5. Disaster and Apocalypse: Maggie Gee's The Flood

Conclusion: The Gift of the Disaster

References

Index