Berthold Schoene
Biographic Data
| ID | 368925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Berthold Schoene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Berthold |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoene |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOENE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6536-9093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Max Porter’s ruderalism, or what nature is now
This article draws attention to Max Porter's portrayal of the ruderal margins of our human lifeworld as the dominant landscape of the Anthropocene.My analysis reaches beyond conceptions of the ruderal as a liminal terrain vague, or 'edgelands', that constitutes a hybrid 'third space' between the cultural zone of urban or suburban settlements, on the one hand, and nature as incorporated by the countryside, or 'the wilderness', on the other.The art…
Coming Back Down to Earth: The Novel and the Human Condition in the Anthropocene
Has the novel got what it takes to capture the human condition in the Anthropocene?Reading Martin MacInnes' In Ascension (2023) as an exemplary Anthropocene novel, I argue that the fixation of many prominent critics on the subject of climate change alone has hampered a more comprehensive appraisal of Anthropocene fiction.Drawing on work by Stacy Alaimo, Hannah Arendt and David Chandler, and deploying Alaimo's concept of transcorporeality as a str…
Arborealism, or do novels do trees
What makes a realist novel an arborealist novel? What does narrative and, in particular, what does the novel need to learn or unlearn in order to ‘do’ trees? This article looks at two contemporary novels – Annie Proulx’s Barkskins (2016) and Richard Powers’ The Overstory (2018) – whose main interest has shifted from predominantly portraying human affairs to mobilising a more-than-human eco-narratological dynamic. By invoking the possibility of a …
Twenty-First-Century Fiction
This chapter looks at how the contemporary British and Irish novel is becoming part of a new globalized world literature, which imagines the world as it manifests itself both within (‘glocally’) and outside nationalist demarcations. At its weakest, often against its own best intentions, this new cosmopolitan writing cannot but simply reinscribe the old imperial power relations. Or, it provides an essential component of the West’s ideological supe…
Getting World Going in Margaret Atwood'sOryx and Crake
In this article I explore Nancy's understanding of “sense” as world: the two are inseparably entwined, which is why to speak of a sense of the world is tautological. Nancy reflects on philosophy's role in this crystallization of “sense” as world (and world as sense), identifying it as writing on the border between myth and “the abyss.” Philosophy is a style of writing that opens the (sense of the) world between the always-relative projection (“my…
Barack Obama: Twenty-First-Century President
The Cosmopolitan Novel
While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book introduces a new generation of contemporary British writers (Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor and David Mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists Arund…
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers t…
Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature
The Wounded Woman and the Parrot: Post-feminist Girlhood in Alan Warner'sThe Sopranosand Bella Bathurst'sSpecial
The essay reads two British novels about teenage girls – Alan Warner's The Sopranos (1998) and Bella Bathurst's Special (2002) – within the context of recent sociological Girls' Studies research. Particular attention is given to processes of self-formation, group dynamics, and twenty-first-century girls' attitudes to both traditional femininity and feminist politics. Contrasting a group of working-class girls with a group of middle-class girls, t…
Introduction to the Special Section on Literary Masculinities
Writing Men: Literary Masculinities from Frankenstein to the New Man
In Writing Men, Berthold Schoene-Harwood develops a trajectory of masculine emancipation from the monstrous imagery of nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary men writers' experimental new discourse of ecriture masculine. Looking at 13 individual case studies, Schoene-Harwood outlines the historical development of literary representations of masculinity from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Ian McEwan's The Child in Time. Subdivided into four pa…
Beyond (T)race: Bildung and Proprioception in Meera Syal's Anita and Me
Herald of hybridity: The emancipation of difference in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
The paper reads Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia as a paradigmatic example of post-imperial ethno-English writing. Kureishi's novel propagates an emancipation of ethnic difference from both the discriminatory stereotyping institutionalized by current multiculturalist discourse as well as the postcolonial migrant subject's propensity for self-oppressive role-play and anglophile mimicry, most notably problematized in Salman Rushdie's intercu…
The Cosmopolitan Novel
While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book introduces a new generation of contemporary British writers (Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor and David Mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists Arund…
Herald of hybridity: The emancipation of difference in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
The paper reads Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia as a paradigmatic example of post-imperial ethno-English writing. Kureishi's novel propagates an emancipation of ethnic difference from both the discriminatory stereotyping institutionalized by current multiculturalist discourse as well as the postcolonial migrant subject's propensity for self-oppressive role-play and anglophile mimicry, most notably problematized in Salman Rushdie's intercu…
Coming Back Down to Earth: The Novel and the Human Condition in the Anthropocene
Has the novel got what it takes to capture the human condition in the Anthropocene?Reading Martin MacInnes' In Ascension (2023) as an exemplary Anthropocene novel, I argue that the fixation of many prominent critics on the subject of climate change alone has hampered a more comprehensive appraisal of Anthropocene fiction.Drawing on work by Stacy Alaimo, Hannah Arendt and David Chandler, and deploying Alaimo's concept of transcorporeality as a str…
Getting World Going in Margaret Atwood'sOryx and Crake
In this article I explore Nancy's understanding of “sense” as world: the two are inseparably entwined, which is why to speak of a sense of the world is tautological. Nancy reflects on philosophy's role in this crystallization of “sense” as world (and world as sense), identifying it as writing on the border between myth and “the abyss.” Philosophy is a style of writing that opens the (sense of the) world between the always-relative projection (“my…
The Wounded Woman and the Parrot: Post-feminist Girlhood in Alan Warner'sThe Sopranosand Bella Bathurst'sSpecial
The essay reads two British novels about teenage girls – Alan Warner's The Sopranos (1998) and Bella Bathurst's Special (2002) – within the context of recent sociological Girls' Studies research. Particular attention is given to processes of self-formation, group dynamics, and twenty-first-century girls' attitudes to both traditional femininity and feminist politics. Contrasting a group of working-class girls with a group of middle-class girls, t…
Herald of hybridity: The emancipation of difference in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
The paper reads Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia as a paradigmatic example of post-imperial ethno-English writing. Kureishi's novel propagates an emancipation of ethnic difference from both the discriminatory stereotyping institutionalized by current multiculturalist discourse as well as the postcolonial migrant subject's propensity for self-oppressive role-play and anglophile mimicry, most notably problematized in Salman Rushdie's intercu…
Beyond (T)race: Bildung and Proprioception in Meera Syal's Anita and Me
Writing Men: Literary Masculinities from Frankenstein to the New Man
In Writing Men, Berthold Schoene-Harwood develops a trajectory of masculine emancipation from the monstrous imagery of nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary men writers' experimental new discourse of ecriture masculine. Looking at 13 individual case studies, Schoene-Harwood outlines the historical development of literary representations of masculinity from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Ian McEwan's The Child in Time. Subdivided into four pa…
Introduction to the Special Section on Literary Masculinities
The Wounded Woman and the Parrot: Post-feminist Girlhood in Alan Warner'sThe Sopranosand Bella Bathurst'sSpecial
The essay reads two British novels about teenage girls – Alan Warner's The Sopranos (1998) and Bella Bathurst's Special (2002) – within the context of recent sociological Girls' Studies research. Particular attention is given to processes of self-formation, group dynamics, and twenty-first-century girls' attitudes to both traditional femininity and feminist politics. Contrasting a group of working-class girls with a group of middle-class girls, t…
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers t…
Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature
The Cosmopolitan Novel
While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book introduces a new generation of contemporary British writers (Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor and David Mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists Arund…
Barack Obama: Twenty-First-Century President
Getting World Going in Margaret Atwood'sOryx and Crake
In this article I explore Nancy's understanding of “sense” as world: the two are inseparably entwined, which is why to speak of a sense of the world is tautological. Nancy reflects on philosophy's role in this crystallization of “sense” as world (and world as sense), identifying it as writing on the border between myth and “the abyss.” Philosophy is a style of writing that opens the (sense of the) world between the always-relative projection (“my…
Twenty-First-Century Fiction
This chapter looks at how the contemporary British and Irish novel is becoming part of a new globalized world literature, which imagines the world as it manifests itself both within (‘glocally’) and outside nationalist demarcations. At its weakest, often against its own best intentions, this new cosmopolitan writing cannot but simply reinscribe the old imperial power relations. Or, it provides an essential component of the West’s ideological supe…
Arborealism, or do novels do trees
What makes a realist novel an arborealist novel? What does narrative and, in particular, what does the novel need to learn or unlearn in order to ‘do’ trees? This article looks at two contemporary novels – Annie Proulx’s Barkskins (2016) and Richard Powers’ The Overstory (2018) – whose main interest has shifted from predominantly portraying human affairs to mobilising a more-than-human eco-narratological dynamic. By invoking the possibility of a …
Coming Back Down to Earth: The Novel and the Human Condition in the Anthropocene
Has the novel got what it takes to capture the human condition in the Anthropocene?Reading Martin MacInnes' In Ascension (2023) as an exemplary Anthropocene novel, I argue that the fixation of many prominent critics on the subject of climate change alone has hampered a more comprehensive appraisal of Anthropocene fiction.Drawing on work by Stacy Alaimo, Hannah Arendt and David Chandler, and deploying Alaimo's concept of transcorporeality as a str…
Max Porter’s ruderalism, or what nature is now
This article draws attention to Max Porter's portrayal of the ruderal margins of our human lifeworld as the dominant landscape of the Anthropocene.My analysis reaches beyond conceptions of the ruderal as a liminal terrain vague, or 'edgelands', that constitutes a hybrid 'third space' between the cultural zone of urban or suburban settlements, on the one hand, and nature as incorporated by the countryside, or 'the wilderness', on the other.The art…
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