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The ethics of (in-)attention in contemporary Anglophone narrative

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"This volume argues that contemporary narratives resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an ethics of the particularist type. The contributors draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: including psychology and sociology, but more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the Ethics of Care and Vulnerability. This volume is designed as an innovative contribution to the nascent field of the study of attention in literary criticism, an area that is full of potential. Its scope is wide, as it embraces a great deal of the Anglophone world, with Britain, Ireland, the USA, but also Australia and even Malta. Its chapters focus on well-established authors, like Kazuo Ishiguro (whose work is revisited here in a completely new light) or more confidential ones like Melissa Harrison or Sarah Moss"-- Provided by publisher.

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The ethics of (in-)attention in contemporary Anglophone narrative / Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega -- "The thing was to make yourself invisible, she said": Jon McGregor's reframing of the norms of perception of working-class women in So Many Ways to Begin / Susana Onega -- Attention to what? The poetics, ethics and attentional economies in Dave Eggers's The Parade / Miriam Fernández-Santiago -- Interstitial ethics: attending to frames of intelligibility in Harry Parker's Anatomy of a Soldier / Katia Marcellin -- Attending to the victims of (in-)visible violence: elided potentialities revisited in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These / Merve Sarikaya-Şen -- From shrouded presence to impactful mentorship: drawing attention to the Romani housewife in Mikey Walsh's Gypsy Boy / Alejandro Nadal-Ruiz -- Creating a scene: minor literature and the ecologies of critical attention / Ivan Callus -- Surveillance and (in-)visibility: reading Jenni Fagan's The Panopticon through an ethics of attention / Ángela Rivera-Izquierdo -- "I can't be silent or invisible any longer": reorienting attention and care in Jan Carson's The Last Resort / Paula Romo-Mayor -- The ethics of carelessness: inattention in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go / Alice Bennett -- The ecology of attention in Inga Simpson's Where the Trees Were / Bárbara Arizti -- Vibrant matter, polyphony and the ecology of attention in Sarah Moss's Summerwater / Angelo Monaco -- The sharpness of the post-pastoral: Melissa Harrison's At Hawthorn Time / Jean-Michel Ganteau.

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