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21%OFFAshley T. Shelden - Unmaking Love: The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union - 9780231178228 - V9780231178228
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Unmaking Love: The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union

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Description for Unmaking Love: The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union Hardback. "The author examines how the romantic conception of love has been critiqued, destroyed, and reoriented in modernist and contemporary novels" -- Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 398.
The contemporary novel does more than revise our conception of love-it explodes it, queers it, and makes it unrecognizable. Rather than providing union, connection, and completion, love in contemporary fiction destroys the possibility of unity, harbors negativity, and foregrounds difference. Comparing contemporary and modernist depictions of love to delineate critical continuities and innovations, Unmaking Love locates queerness in the novelistic strategies of Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Hanif Kureshi, Alan Hollinghurst, and Hari Kunzru. In their work, queer love becomes more than shorthand for sexual identity. It comes to embody thwarted expectations, disarticulated organization, and unnerving multiplicity. In queer ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Literature Now
Condition
New
Weight
398 g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231178228
SKU
V9780231178228
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About Ashley T. Shelden
Ashley T. Shelden is associate professor of English at Kennesaw State University.

Reviews for Unmaking Love: The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union
Ashley T. Shelden has written a fascinating and important book that is a pleasure to read and which will have broad impact on both literary studies and queer theory. With attentive and graceful style, she traces how the fantasy that love means 2-united-as-1 deconstructs itself throughout twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Unmaking Love provides a major contribution to the fields ... Read more

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