The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative

di Jean-Michel Ganteau (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024

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.

• Autore: Jean-Michel Ganteau
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 192 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 370 gr.
• EAN: 9781032423234

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