"No Continent Is an Island: Jon McGregor’s Lean Fall Stand"
International audience Like his previous novels, Jon McGregor’s Lean Fall Stand (2021), goes on attending to human precariousness and ontological vulnerability. It turns its back on the world of excluded addicts and outcasts that Even the Dogs (2011) chose to throw into visibility and ties in with t...
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ftunmontpellier3:oai:HAL:hal-04173420v1 2023-11-05T03:34:24+01:00 "No Continent Is an Island: Jon McGregor’s Lean Fall Stand" Ganteau, Jean-Michel Etudes montpelliéraines du monde anglophone (EMMA) Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM) EA741-EMMA Nuova Trauben Pier Paolo Piciucco 2023 https://univ-montpellier3-paul-valery.hal.science/hal-04173420 en eng HAL CCSD Nuova Trauben ISBN: 9788899312909 hal-04173420 https://univ-montpellier3-paul-valery.hal.science/hal-04173420 Contemporary Vulnerabilities https://univ-montpellier3-paul-valery.hal.science/hal-04173420 Nuova Trauben. Contemporary Vulnerabilities, Nuova Trauben, pp.267-284, 2023, Strumenti letterari, 9788899312909 www.nuovatrauben.it cli fi dependence disability embeddings entanglements interdependences natural environment vulnerability [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Book sections 2023 ftunmontpellier3 2023-10-11T16:16:55Z International audience Like his previous novels, Jon McGregor’s Lean Fall Stand (2021), goes on attending to human precariousness and ontological vulnerability. It turns its back on the world of excluded addicts and outcasts that Even the Dogs (2011) chose to throw into visibility and ties in with the story of personal trauma and attendant incapacitation at the heart of So Many Ways to Begin (2006), even while exploring the human subject’s relation to his/her natural environment that is prominent in Reservoir 13 (2017). Lean Fall Stand provides a story of human dependence on the natural environment that partly takes place in Antarctica, echoing contemporary concerns about the climate crisis and showcasing the shift of agency from the human subject to the extreme natural and climactic elements coming along with the Anthropocene. Its second half takes place in England and both thematises and presents the physical and social consequences of a stroke that affects the protagonist. It provides a linguistic immersion into the world of partial aphasia and gives experiential, incarnated knowledge of the reality of what it is to be dependent. The link between the apparently separate parts of the narrative pulls on the thread of vulnerability, in its human and non-human aspects, insisting on the vulnerability of all the living and thereby building up a picture of interdependences, embeddings and entanglements. Book Part Antarc* Antarctica HAL Portal Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 3 |
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International audience Like his previous novels, Jon McGregor’s Lean Fall Stand (2021), goes on attending to human precariousness and ontological vulnerability. It turns its back on the world of excluded addicts and outcasts that Even the Dogs (2011) chose to throw into visibility and ties in with the story of personal trauma and attendant incapacitation at the heart of So Many Ways to Begin (2006), even while exploring the human subject’s relation to his/her natural environment that is prominent in Reservoir 13 (2017). Lean Fall Stand provides a story of human dependence on the natural environment that partly takes place in Antarctica, echoing contemporary concerns about the climate crisis and showcasing the shift of agency from the human subject to the extreme natural and climactic elements coming along with the Anthropocene. Its second half takes place in England and both thematises and presents the physical and social consequences of a stroke that affects the protagonist. It provides a linguistic immersion into the world of partial aphasia and gives experiential, incarnated knowledge of the reality of what it is to be dependent. The link between the apparently separate parts of the narrative pulls on the thread of vulnerability, in its human and non-human aspects, insisting on the vulnerability of all the living and thereby building up a picture of interdependences, embeddings and entanglements. |
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Contemporary Vulnerabilities https://univ-montpellier3-paul-valery.hal.science/hal-04173420 Nuova Trauben. Contemporary Vulnerabilities, Nuova Trauben, pp.267-284, 2023, Strumenti letterari, 9788899312909 www.nuovatrauben.it |
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