The otherworlds of Liz Jensen: a critical reading
"Liz Jensen, a British author of eight novels, is among today's most innovative writers. Her literary thrillers occupy the terrain between realism and science fiction. This first study of Jensen centers on the very diverse "otherworlds" she creates in each of her novels, which ca...
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| Summary: | "Liz Jensen, a British author of eight novels, is among today's most innovative writers. Her literary thrillers occupy the terrain between realism and science fiction. This first study of Jensen centers on the very diverse "otherworlds" she creates in each of her novels, which can consist of an indeterminate space of ontological instability, a zone in which real and unreal converge to destabilize the realist text, as in Egg Dancing (1995) and The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (2004). In other novels the otherworld relies on defamiliarization: thus in War Crimes for the Home (2002) the experience of war is transformed by being seen from a woman's perspective. In still other cases, the otherworld spans the novel's entire topos, as in The Paper Eater (2000), the full-blown utopia at the center of Jensen's oeuvre. Jensen's work approaches contemporary social issues such as religious fundamentalism, ecological disaster, and assisted procreation. Simultaneously, it displays a number of characteristics of erudite fiction, including self-reflexivity, inter- and intratextual reference, parody, pastiche, and burlesque. Notwithstanding the "popular" elements of Jensen's work, Helen E. Mundler's study adopts a rigorously academic approach to it, referencing canonical works but also more innovative texts, particularly by contemporary women writers, as points of comparison" ... |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 232 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781571139627 1571139621 |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
NOTES ON ABBREVIATIONS AND GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE
INTRODUCTION
EGG DANCING: PAVING THE WAY FOR OTHERWORLDS IN TIME AND SPACE
ARK BABY AND THE RETURN TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
ISLAND LIFE: THE PURE USTOPIA OF THE PAPER EATER
LIZ JENSEN S MURDER MYSTERIES
FROM FAMILY ROMANCE TO THE DETECTIVE NOVEL
NEW RULES, NEW OTHERWORLDS: JENSEN S THIRD WAVE
ECOFICTION, RAPTURE FICTION
THE UNINVITED: THE MOST RADICALLY OTHER WORLD TO DATE
CONCLUSION
DIESES SCHRIFTSTCK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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