Daniel Lea
Biographic Data
| ID | 305828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Lea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Lea |
| SIGNATURE | LEA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4685-010X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Narrative Wreckage
In Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag claims that cancer is the perfect metaphorical descriptor for late-capitalism's unbridled consumption and wild proliferation. Cancer is a disease she suggests that disdains order; it defies the reason of science and, in so doing, accurately reflects the decentred subject of contemporary philosophy and politics. The irrationality of the disease inhibits narrativization, imbuing the stories we tell about it with…
Queens of Hearts
Contemporary culture is caught in a representational bind: fascinated by—and yet tired of—its tendency towards artifice and involution, whilst simultaneously attracted to—and yet sceptical of—the idea of the authentic. The hermeneutical confusion brought about by this self-identity crisis has given rise to a semiotic indistinction around artificiality and authenticity, leaving the observer trapped not by their bipolarity, but caught within their …
Trauma, celebrity, and killing in the 'contemporary murder leisure industry
This essay examines the discursive interpenetration of trauma and celebrity culture, and, through an examination of the multiple killer in recent British writing and culture, locates the interest in both in the alienating otherness of the Real. Reading the work of Gordon Burn, David Peace and Rupert Thomson, the essay explores the semiotic crossover between the celebrity and the murderer as contemporary icons and situates both as symptoms of a pa…
Kurt Vonnegut’s America
Introduction to the Special Section on Literary Masculinities
Narrative Wreckage
In Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag claims that cancer is the perfect metaphorical descriptor for late-capitalism's unbridled consumption and wild proliferation. Cancer is a disease she suggests that disdains order; it defies the reason of science and, in so doing, accurately reflects the decentred subject of contemporary philosophy and politics. The irrationality of the disease inhibits narrativization, imbuing the stories we tell about it with…
Trauma, celebrity, and killing in the 'contemporary murder leisure industry
This essay examines the discursive interpenetration of trauma and celebrity culture, and, through an examination of the multiple killer in recent British writing and culture, locates the interest in both in the alienating otherness of the Real. Reading the work of Gordon Burn, David Peace and Rupert Thomson, the essay explores the semiotic crossover between the celebrity and the murderer as contemporary icons and situates both as symptoms of a pa…
Introduction to the Special Section on Literary Masculinities
Kurt Vonnegut’s America
Queens of Hearts
Contemporary culture is caught in a representational bind: fascinated by—and yet tired of—its tendency towards artifice and involution, whilst simultaneously attracted to—and yet sceptical of—the idea of the authentic. The hermeneutical confusion brought about by this self-identity crisis has given rise to a semiotic indistinction around artificiality and authenticity, leaving the observer trapped not by their bipolarity, but caught within their …
Trauma, celebrity, and killing in the 'contemporary murder leisure industry
This essay examines the discursive interpenetration of trauma and celebrity culture, and, through an examination of the multiple killer in recent British writing and culture, locates the interest in both in the alienating otherness of the Real. Reading the work of Gordon Burn, David Peace and Rupert Thomson, the essay explores the semiotic crossover between the celebrity and the murderer as contemporary icons and situates both as symptoms of a pa…
Narrative Wreckage
In Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag claims that cancer is the perfect metaphorical descriptor for late-capitalism's unbridled consumption and wild proliferation. Cancer is a disease she suggests that disdains order; it defies the reason of science and, in so doing, accurately reflects the decentred subject of contemporary philosophy and politics. The irrationality of the disease inhibits narrativization, imbuing the stories we tell about it with…
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (1 work) · Artificiality (1 work)