{"product_id":"discrepant-solace-contemporary-literature-and-the-work-of-consolation-9780198789758","title":"Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation","description":"Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear at first sight to foil solace altogether. Illuminating this striking archive, \u003cem\u003eDiscrepant Solace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003econsiders writers who engage with consolation not as an aesthetic salve but as an enduring problematic, one that unravels at the centre of emotionally challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and life-writing. The book understands solace as a generative yet conflicted\u003cbr\u003easpect of style, where microelements of diction, rhythm, and syntax capture consolation's alternating desirability and contestation. With a wide-angle lens on the contemporary scene, David James examines writers who are rarely considered in conversation, including Sonali Deraniyagala, Colson\u003cbr\u003eWhitehead, Cormac McCarthy, W.G. Sebald, Doris Lessing, Joan Didion, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Julian Barnes, Helen Macdonald, Ian McEwan, Colm Toibin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denise Riley, and David Grossman. These figures overturn critical suppositions about consolation's kinship with ideological\u003cbr\u003ecomplaisance, superficial mitigation, or dubious distraction, producing unsettling perceptions of solace that shape the formal and political contours of their writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough intimate readings of novels and memoirs that explore seemingly indescribable experiences of grief, trauma, remorse, and dread, James demonstrates how they turn consolation into a condition of expressional possibility without ever promising us relief. He also supplies vital traction to\u003cbr\u003ecurrent conversations about the stakes of thinking with contemporary writing to scrutinize affirmative structures of feeling, revealing unexpected common ground between the operations of literary consolation and the urgencies of cultural critique. \u003cem\u003eDiscrepant Solace\u003c\/em\u003e makes the close reading of emotion\u003cbr\u003ecrucial to understanding the work literature does in our precarious present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198789758\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid James, \u003cem\u003eProfessorial Research Fellow, University of Birmingham\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid James is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, before which he was Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eModernist Futures\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2012), his edited volumes include \u003cem\u003eThe Legacies\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eof Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2012), \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and \u003cem\u003eModernism and Close Reading\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He is Associate Editor for the journal \u003cem\u003eContemporary Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and for Columbia University Press he co-edits the book series 'Literature Now'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932108439667,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":83.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6eafb5a0-f58c-4263-9090-cd06c24578b4.jpg?v=1647790131","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/discrepant-solace-contemporary-literature-and-the-work-of-consolation-9780198789758","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}