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03436aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 8D9490C2961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180802010035 008 180108t20182018sz b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9783319749679 020 $a 3319749676 035 $a (OCoLC)1017847968 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKBRU $d NJM $d YDX $d BDX $d GSU $d OCLCF $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56 S8 S53x 2018 082 04 $a 820.9/0092 $2 23 100 1 $a Shaw, Katy, $e author. 245 10 $a Hauntology : $b the presence of the past in twenty-first century English literature / $c Katy Shaw. 264 1 $a Cham $b : Palgrave Macmillan, $c [2018] 300 $a ix, 119 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Palgrave pivot 540 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-116) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction. Hauntology: ghosts of our lives -- The (spectral) turn of the century in Simon Armitage's 'Killing time' (1999) -- Phantasmal intertexts: literary spectrality in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem (2009) -- 'Ghostpitality': specters of self in Zadie Smith's NW (2012) -- Authorial afterlives: ghost-writing in David Peace's PATIENT X (2018) -- Conclusion. 'In return': towards a hauntology of twenty-first century English literature. 520 $a Post-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. This 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 discourses that continue to speak to the contemporary period. The 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. Harnessing 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. 650 0 $a English literature $x History and criticism $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Ghosts in literature. 650 0 $a History in literature. 830 0 $a Palgrave pivot. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180802013854.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8D9490C2961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search