Contemporary fiction in the academy
Towards a Manifesto
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5725819 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Eaglestone (Universidad de Londres, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1089-1101 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2013.840113 |
| OpenAlex | W2016268377 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Researching contemporary fiction in the academy raises uncomfortable and worrying questions about what we academics do. It also reveals that we have yet to come to a view – not even a dissensus range of views – about what it means to research contemporary fiction. In order to begin to develop such a dissensus, this manifesto outlines nine questions or problems for the study of contemporary fiction.Key words: Contemporary fictionliterary studiesgenreperiodarchivevalue judgementauthorial intentionMartin Heidegger Notes1 Ben Knights, ‘Intelligence and Interrogation: The Identity of the English Student’, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 4.1 (2005), pp. 33–52 (35).2 Ibid., p. 36.3 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1963), p. 84 Heidegger Martin, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962), H.9.5 See, for example, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidoke, eds, What Is Contemporary Art? (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010).6 See, inter alia, Kaye Mitchell, Intention and Text (London: Continuum, 2008).7 David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2010), p. 70.8 It status as science fiction is examined in much more detail by Gabrielle Griffin, ‘Science and the Culture Imaginary: The Case of Never Let Me Go’, Textual Practice, 23.4 (2009), pp. 645–663.9 Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 3. I would like to thank Joseph Brooker, Doug Cowie, Bianca Leggett, Ben Markovitz, Adam Roberts (who posed the question with which I start, and to whom this article is dedicated with admiration and affection), and Tony Venezia for informative conversations on these topics
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Literature · Manifesto · Political science · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Law
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |