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Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction

The Thought of the Disaster

Author: Jonathan Boulter  

Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction
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A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland

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A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland

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Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster delves into Maurice Blanchot's enigmatic, and deeply influential, notion of the disaster a term Blanchot famously refuses to define. By exploring the novels of Jon McGregor, Mike McCormack, David Mitchell, Jeanette Winterson and Maggie Gee, Jonathan Boulter suggests that we can think of literature, the space of the imagination, as the place where some conception (ethical, ecological, or ontological) of the disaster emerges. These novels, all in some ways about the disaster, just as they are inflected by the disaster, become the place where an understanding of critical events death, ecological catastrophe, pandemics is possible.

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Jonathan Boulter is the first to admit that he does not understand the disaster in Blanchot's thinking - which means that he understands it perfectly, as a thought that we cannot reach but that fatally reaches toward us, not least in the unsteady gesture of literary writing.

--Jeff Fort, University of California, Davis

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About the Author

Jonathan Boulter is Professor of English at Western University, London, Canada. His previous publications include Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (Wayne State UP, 2015), Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (Continuum, 2011), Samuel Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008), and Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett (University Press of Florida, 2001).

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Published
1st August 2025
Pages
240
ISBN
9781474499637

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