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Jeff Noon's 'Vurt'

A Critical Companion
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130 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am02.08.20221st ed. 2022
This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon´s iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the novel´s content, form, and theme. Finally, Wenaus makes the case for Vurt´s ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism, psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also anoptimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures.mehr
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KlappentextThis book offers an examination of Jeff Noon´s iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the novel´s content, form, and theme. Finally, Wenaus makes the case for Vurt´s ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism, psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also anoptimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-031-07028-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum02.08.2022
Auflage1st ed. 2022
ReihePalgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
Seiten130 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXV, 130 p.
Artikel-Nr.9320737

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Totally Feathered Up in Bottletown: Imagining Manchester.- Chapter 3: Orpheus and His Limbic Decks: Avant-Pulp Bricolage and Rites Of Passage.- Chapter 4: Fractal Narrative and Chaos Theory: The Formal and Thematic Paradox Of Escapism.- Chapter 5: What Literature Thinks: Vurt and Neuroemancipation.mehr

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Autor

Andrew C. Wenaus is assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario's Department of English and Writings Studies, a member of the Complex Adaptive Systems Lab, and author of The Literature of Exclusion: Dada, Data, and the Threshold of Electronic Literature. He is also a composer and, with Christina Willatt, has written and performed electro-acoustic scores for theatre, dance, film, and contemporary classical ensemble.