{"product_id":"the-possibility-of-literature-the-novel-and-the-politics-of-form-hardback-9781009314299","title":"The Possibility of Literature; The Novel and the Politics of Form (Hardback) 9781009314299","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Possibility of Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Novel and the Politics of Form\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeter Boxall offers here a powerful and singular exploration of the imaginative possibilities of literature in a dramatically changing world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Boxall (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009314299, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e408 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.71 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'In this groundbreaking study, leading scholar of the novel Peter Boxall considers what makes literature possible-and what literature makes possible-at a time when the very survival of the planet looks increasingly impossible.  The climate emergency, Boxall contends, puts in question the relation between culture and nature, human and inhuman, requiring an overhaul of existing critical and creative modes.  Ranging widely from Cervantes to Maria Edgeworth to Emily Dickinson; from Herman Melville and W. B. Yeats, to Henry James, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf; from Philip Roth and Don DeLillo to James Kelman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith, Boxall argues that their writing presses against limits to open up a glimpse of possibility, however fleeting and ungraspable.  'This capacity of literary writing to exceed its own terms,' Boxall proposes, 'is the engine of literary possibility.'' Maud Ellmann, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, University of Chicago\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book demonstrates the changing fate of literary thinking over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Peter Boxall traces here the profound shifts in the global conditions that make literature possible as these have occurred in the historical passage from 9\/11 to Covid 19. Exploring questions such as 'The Idea of Beauty', the nature of 'Mere Being', or the possibilities of Rereading, the author anatomises the myriad forces that shape the literary imagination. At the same time, he gives vivid critical expression to the imaginative possibilities of literature itself – those unique forms of communal life that literature makes possible in a dramatically changing world, and that lead us towards a new shared future.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: the possibility of literature\u003cbr\u003e Part I. On Writers: 1. A sort of crutch: race and prosthesis in Herman Melville's fiction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Samuel Beckett: towards a political reading\u003cbr\u003e 3. A leap out of our biology: history, tautology and biomatter in DeLillo's later fiction\u003cbr\u003e 4. A more sophisticated imitation: Ishiguro and the novel\u003cbr\u003e 5. A cleaving in the mind: Kelman's later novels\u003cbr\u003e 6. Zadie Smith, E. M. Forster and the idea of beauty\u003cbr\u003e Part II. On Literary History: 7. The threshold of vision: the animal gaze in Beckett, Sebald and Coetzee\u003cbr\u003e 8. The anatomy of realism: Cervantes, Coetzee and artificial life\u003cbr\u003e 9. Back roads: Edgeworth. Bowen. Yeats. Beckett\u003cbr\u003e 10. Blind seeing: death writing from Dickinson to the contemporary\u003cbr\u003e 11. Mere being: imagination at the end of the mind\u003cbr\u003e Part III. On the Contemporary: 12. Imagining the future in the British novel\u003cbr\u003e 13. Shallow intensity: Neoliberalism and the novel\u003cbr\u003e 14. To carry now away: happy days in the anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e 15. On rereading Proust.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52460684378392,"sku":"9781009314299","price":26.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009314299i.jpg?v=1785458174","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-possibility-of-literature-the-novel-and-the-politics-of-form-hardback-9781009314299","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}