Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz

Failure: The Humble Narrative of Unsuccessfulness in Late Modernist Fiction

British, Irish and Postcolonial Novels and Stories

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Failure as a pervasive occurrence in life has rarely been investigated by sociology, even though the collapse of plans, unattainability of goals and breakdown of vital relationships are ordinary experiences. The study of early-21st-century fiction reveals that imaginative literature at present explores the lacunae of failure, disillusionment and collapse as central narrative themes. About fifty years after Samuel Beckett, in whose works the failing of expression became a major concern, postmillennial narratives expose disruption or defeat as subject matter and literary trope. Unheroic failure as a motif makes its variegated appearance in dive… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-631-82632-4
EAN: 9783631826324
Produktnummer: 34593246
Verlag: Peter Lang
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 212 S.
Masse: H21.8 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.0 cm 407 g
Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 407

Über den Autor

Professor Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz taught English and American literature and cultural studies as a senior lecturer in the English Department at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, until 2011. Her research interests are mainly in the fields of early modern literature, especially Shakespeare, and contemporary fiction.