Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction

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<p>Combining close readings of literature and theory, <i>Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction</i> opens up new ways to consider the sex-time-space nexus. In an exciting and compelling contribution to contemporary literary studies, this book takes the concept of `exceptionality¿ as its point of departure as developed through an exploration of Giorgio Agamben¿s theory of the state of exception and the work of theorists including Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. Through an analysis of a range of widely read contemporary fiction, including <i>On Chesil Beach</i>, <i>Gertrude and Claudius</i>, <i>The Act of Love</i> and <i>Room</i>, Ben Davies<i> </i>provides a rigorous exploration of narrative form and offers original theories of the prequel, narrative relations in terms of set theory, and the practice of reading itself.</p><p> </p>

Autorenportrait

<p>Ben Davies is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the co-editor of <i>Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture</i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).<i></i></p>

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