The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative

The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9781000832044
ISBN-13 : 100083204X
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Download or read book The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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