Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985?û2015

Since the nineteenth century, the Western realistic novel has persistently represented the addict as a morally toxic force bent on destroying the institutions, practices, and ideologies that historically have connoted reason, order, civilization. Addiction, Representation undertakes an investigation into an alternative literary tradition that unsettles this limited portrayal of the addict. The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to both diegetic and extra-diegetic addicts--an approach that, at its core, is focused on understanding.

• | Author: Heath A. Diehl
• | Publisher: Anthem Press
• | Publication Date: May 03, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1839985666
• | ISBN-13: 9781839985669