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  1. Groups and identities in 21st-century British fiction
    Author: Earnshaw, Claire
    Published: [2022]
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    Climate change, the rise of right-wing parties across Europe, the growing power and impact of social media or the Covid-19 pandemic – the discussions surrounding some of the most pressing issues of our times lay bare growing chasms between conflicting group interests, hierarchies and identities. In light of these debates, understanding how groups are constructed, how identification processes work and what may lie behind inclusion and exclusion seems more relevant and pertinent than ever. This book sheds light on how 21st-century British fiction represents the relationship between groups and individual identities and also zooms in on the construction of groups as social entities. By doing so, this study highlights the importance of literature and literary studies in understanding (and possibly even bridging the gap between) some of the divides between groups in the 21st century.Contents1.- Introduction11.1 Studying Groups in Literary Studies: Aims and Methodology41.2 State of Research: Group Studies across the Disciplines72. Establishing a Theoretical Framework: Groups and Identities112.1 "I – Me – Us": The Nexus of Groups and Individuals122.1.1 Contextual Selves? Personal and Social Identity122.1.2 Interactive Selves162.2 Groups as Social Systems183. Groups and Identities in Literary Narratives253.1 Forms, Functions and Ways of Narrative Representation253.2 Three Stages of Groups and Group Identities303.2.1 Becoming: Similarity and Difference313.2.2 Belonging: Experience and Performance343.2.3 Maintaining: Memory and Group Identity as Inseparable Concepts364. Becoming: New Constellations, New Beginnings424.1 Challenging Perceptions of Similarity and Difference: Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004)434.2 Similarity in Difference: Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down (2005)574.3 Comparative Conclusion: Negotiating Group Identities695.- Experiencing Group Identity: Performing "Faithful Allegiances"735.1 Ambivalent Roots: Zadie Smith’s NW (2012)745.2 Comparative Conclusion I: Collective Spaces895.3 Forms and Formations: Jon McGregor’s Even the Dogs (2010)965.4 Comparative Conclusion II: Performing Groups through Narratives1096. Maintaining Group Identities: Shared Pasts and Entangled Lives1136.1 Groups That Never Let You Go: Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending (2011)1146.2 Sensing the End in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005)1266.3 Comparative Conclusion: Memories as Tools for Belonging1427. Outlook and Concluding Remarks1458. Works Cited154

     
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    Series: Studies in English literary and cultural history ; Band 88
    Subjects: Gruppenidentität <Motiv>; Roman; Englisch
    Other subjects: Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft; Julian Barnes; Jon McGregor; Group Identity; Zadie Smith; Identity Formation; Andrea Levy; British Novels since 2000; Kazuo Ishiguro; Nick Hornby
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  2. Groups and identities in 21st-century British fiction
    Author: Earnshaw, Claire
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier

    Climate change, the rise of right-wing parties across Europe, the growing power and impact of social media or the Covid-19 pandemic – the discussions surrounding some of the most pressing issues of our times lay bare growing chasms between... more

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    Climate change, the rise of right-wing parties across Europe, the growing power and impact of social media or the Covid-19 pandemic – the discussions surrounding some of the most pressing issues of our times lay bare growing chasms between conflicting group interests, hierarchies and identities. In light of these debates, understanding how groups are constructed, how identification processes work and what may lie behind inclusion and exclusion seems more relevant and pertinent than ever. This book sheds light on how 21st-century British fiction represents the relationship between groups and individual identities and also zooms in on the construction of groups as social entities. By doing so, this study highlights the importance of literature and literary studies in understanding (and possibly even bridging the gap between) some of the divides between groups in the 21st century.Contents1.- Introduction11.1 Studying Groups in Literary Studies: Aims and Methodology41.2 State of Research: Group Studies across the Disciplines72. Establishing a Theoretical Framework: Groups and Identities112.1 “I – Me – Us”: The Nexus of Groups and Individuals122.1.1 Contextual Selves? Personal and Social Identity122.1.2 Interactive Selves162.2 Groups as Social Systems183. Groups and Identities in Literary Narratives253.1 Forms, Functions and Ways of Narrative Representation253.2 Three Stages of Groups and Group Identities303.2.1 Becoming: Similarity and Difference313.2.2 Belonging: Experience and Performance343.2.3 Maintaining: Memory and Group Identity as Inseparable Concepts364. Becoming: New Constellations, New Beginnings424.1 Challenging Perceptions of Similarity and Difference: Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004)434.2 Similarity in Difference: Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down (2005)574.3 Comparative Conclusion: Negotiating Group Identities695.- Experiencing Group Identity: Performing “Faithful Allegiances”735.1 Ambivalent Roots: Zadie Smith’s NW (2012)745.2 Comparative Conclusion I: Collective Spaces895.3 Forms and Formations: Jon McGregor’s Even the Dogs (2010)965.4 Comparative Conclusion II: Performing Groups through Narratives1096. Maintaining Group Identities: Shared Pasts and Entangled Lives1136.1 Groups That Never Let You Go: Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending (2011)1146.2 Sensing the End in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005)1266.3 Comparative Conclusion: Memories as Tools for Belonging1427. Outlook and Concluding Remarks1458. Works Cited154

     
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    Subjects: Julian Barnes; Jon McGregor; Group Identity; Zadie Smith; Identity Formation; Andrea Levy; British Novels since 2000; Kazuo Ishiguro; Nick Hornby
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  3. Groups and identities in 21st-century British fiction
    Author: Earnshaw, Claire
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    Subjects: Gruppenidentität <Motiv>; Englisch; Roman
    Other subjects: Julian Barnes; Jon McGregor; Group Identity; Zadie Smith; Identity Formation; Andrea Levy; British Novels since 2000; Kazuo Ishiguro; Nick Hornby
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  4. Groups and identities in 21st-century British fiction
    Author: Earnshaw, Claire
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  6. The Intelligible Metropolis
    Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels
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    Biographical note: Nora Pleßke (Dr. phil.) teaches English studies at the University of Passau. Her research interests include London literature, material culture, mentality, spatial and postcolonial theory. - Writings on the metropolis generally... more

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    Biographical note: Nora Pleßke (Dr. phil.) teaches English studies at the University of Passau. Her research interests include London literature, material culture, mentality, spatial and postcolonial theory. - Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.

     
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  7. The Intelligible Metropolis
    urban mentality in contemporary London novels
    Author: Pleßke, Nora
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    Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.

     
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  9. The Intelligible Metropolis
    Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels
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  12. The Intelligible Metropolis
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    Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.

     
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    Biographical note: Nora Pleßke (Dr. phil.) teaches English studies at the University of Passau. Her research interests include London literature, material culture, mentality, spatial and postcolonial theory. - Writings on the metropolis generally... more

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    Biographical note: Nora Pleßke (Dr. phil.) teaches English studies at the University of Passau. Her research interests include London literature, material culture, mentality, spatial and postcolonial theory. - Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«. Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's

     
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    DDC Categories: 420
    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: London, Contemporary British Novel, Mentality, City, Space, Monica Ali, J.G. Ballard, Nick Hornby, Ian McEwan, Literature, Urbanity, British Studies, General Literature Studies, Literary Studies; Nick Hornby; Literature; J.G. Ballard; Urbanity; Ian McEwan; Monica Ali; City; Mentality; Contemporary British Novel; General Literature Studies; British Studies; Literary Studies; Space
    Scope: Online-Ressource (574 S.)
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    Zugl.: Passau, Univ., Diss., 2012

    Cover The Intelligible Metropolis ; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Setting the Theme: Intelligibility and Legibility; 1.2 'New' London (1997-2007); 1.3 Selecting the Literary Corpus; 1.4 The Present State of Research; 1.5 Structure and Approach; Theory and Methodology; 2 Theories and Categories of Mentality; 2.1 The Definition of Mentality; 2.1.1 The History of Mentalities; 2.1.2 Historical and Contemporary Social Constructions of Reality; 2.1.3 Mentality as Organon and Rhizome; 2.2 Determinants of Mentality; 2.2.1 Collectivity and Collective Mentality; 2.2.2 Time and Temporal Mentality

    2.2.3 Space and Spatial Mentality2.2.4 Collective Space-Time Compressions; 2.3 The Concept of Mentality; 3 Theories of Urbanity; 3.1 City and Urbanity; 3.1.1 Definition of the City; 3.1.2 Urbanity as the Metropolitan Way of Life; 3.1.3 Metamorphosis of the City and Transformation of Urbanity; 3.2 Urban Theoretical Approaches to Mentalities; 3.2.1 Georg Simmel's Sociology of Modern Urbanity; 3.2.2 The Chicago School of Urban Sociology; 3.2.3 New Urban Political Economy and City Culture; 3.2.4 The Contemporary City and Postmodern Urbanity; 4 The Concept of Urban Mentality

    4.1 Ambivalences of Urban-Generic Mentality4.1.1 City and Country; 4.1.2 Public and Private; 4.1.3 Sociability and Anomie; 4.1.4 Heterogeneity and Homogeneity; 4.1.5 Familiarity and Strangeness; 4.1.6 Community and Individualism; 4.1.7 Indifference and Involvement; 4.1.8 Apathy and Vigilance; 4.2 Factors of Influence on Urban-Specific Mentality; 4.2.1 Culture; 4.2.2 Imaginary; 4.2.3 Image; 4.2.4 Text; 4.2.5 Narrative; 4.2.6 Atmosphere; 4.2.7 Emotion; 4.2.8 Identity; 4.3 The Model of Urban Mentality; 5 Methodological Implications; 5.1 Methodological Approaches to Mentality

    5.1.1 Quantitative and Qualitative Methods5.1.2 Literary and Cultural Studies and the Concept of Mentalities; 5.1.3 Narratological Approaches; 5.2 A Spatio-Narratological Analysis of Mentality; 5.2.1 Literary Topographies; 5.2.2 Boundaries; 5.2.3 Chronotopes; 5.2.4 Metaphors; Analysis of London Mentality; 6 Cityscape; 6.1 Public and Private; 6.1.1 Interpenetrations of Public and Private Drama; 6.1.2 Private Dereliction and Public Regeneration; 6.1.3 Enclosed Privacies in the Global City; 6.1.4 Public 'Aparthide' and Search for Intimacy; 6.1.5 Isolationist Structures of Mentality

    6.2 Underground London6.2.1 Isotopic, Utopic, and Heterotopic Space; 6.2.2 Subterranean Sociability; 6.2.3 The Metropolitan (Un)Conscious; 6.2.4 Deep Collective Space-Time Compressions; 6.2.5 Subterranean Structures of Mentality; 6.3 Navigating the Flux; 6.3.1 Mapping the Metropolis; 6.3.2 Touring the Streets of London; 6.3.3 Sensing the City; 6.3.4 Apprehending Urbanity; 6.3.5 (Sub)Textual Structures of Mentality; 6.4 The Palimpsestuous City; 6.4.1 Historical Layering; 6.4.2 Psychogeographical Tracing; 6.4.3 Socio-Cultural Re-Con-Textualisation; 6.4.4 Intertextual Writing

    6.4.5 Hypertextual Simulation