{"product_id":"9783319749679","title":"Hauntology: The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHauntology: The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eShaw, Katy\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePost-millennial writings function as a useful prism through which we can understand contemporary English culture and its compulsion to revisit the immediate past. The critical practice of hauntology turns to the past in order to make sense of the present, to understand how we got to this place and how to build a better future. Since the Year 2000, popular culture has been inundated with representations of those who occupy a space between being and non-being and defy ontological criteria. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis Pivot explores a range of contemporary English literatures - from the poetry of Simon Armitage and the drama of Jez Butterworth, to the fiction of Zadie Smith and the stories of David Peace - that collectively unite to represent a twenty-first century world  full of specters, reminiscence and representations of spectral encounters. These specters become visible and significant as they interact with a range of social, political and economic discoursesthat continue to speak to the contemporary period. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe enduring fascination with the spectral offers valuable insights into a contemporary English culture in which spectral manifestations signal towards larger social anxieties as well as to specific historical events and recurrent cultural preoccupations. The specter confronts the contemporary with the necessity of participation, encouraging the realisation that we must engage with it in order to create meaning. Narrative agency is the primary motivating force of its return, and the repetition of the specter functions to highlight new meanings and perspectives. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHarnessing hauntology as a lens through which to consider the specters haunting twenty-first century English writings, this Pivot examines the emergence of a vein of hauntological literature that profiles the pervasive presence of the past in our new millennium. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-04-26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319749679\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-74968-6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 119\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47525284937868,"sku":"9783319749679","price":58.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319749679.jpg?v=1776020679","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783319749679","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}