Douglas Coupland’s Literature and Art
The Extreme Present
Douglas Coupland’s Literature and Art
The Extreme Present
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Description
The first collection of scholarly essays about major works across fiction, non-fiction, and visual art by cult writer and artist Douglas Coupland, this book looks at Coupland's work and its interest in today's world, defined by social and technological acceleration, instant communications, and crises of various kinds.
Despite being widely read, Coupland is too often ignored as a subject for academic analysis, an oversight that this collection remedies. While most publications about Coupland have focussed on his fiction, this book notably gives space and attention also to his significant non-fiction and artistic production. It provides students, scholars, and fans of Douglas Coupland alike with rigorous yet accessible analyses of Coupland's major works. The book is divided into sections which look at: Coupland's literary production in its broader literary context; the evolution of Coupland's artistic production; Coupland's engagement with our extreme present; the spiritual dimension of Coupland's works; and their temporal and spatial politics. The book closes on an interview with Coupland, as well as an exclusive contribution produced by Coupland himself for the collection.
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Anticipating the Extreme Present, Diletta De Cristofaro (Northumbria University, UK), Mary McCampbell (independent scholar, USA) and Andrew Tate (Lancaster University, UK)
Part I: Coupland, The Word, and Literary Context
1. Bingeworthy, Bran Nicol (University of Surrey, UK)
2. Pictures of Heaven and Rapture Goo, Andrew Tate (Lancaster University, UK)
Part II: Aesthetics: from Pop Art to the Digital Age
3. The Sublimity in the Surface, Joe Kickasola (Baylor University, USA)
4. The Artist and the Medium, Declan Lloyd (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Part III: The Extreme Present: Post-Modernity, Post-Capitalism, and Posthumanism
5. 'I miss time': Coupland and Temporality, Diletta De Cristofaro (Northumbria University, UK)
6. Douglas Coupland's Post-Capitalist Desire, Niall Gallen (independent scholar, UK)
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Posthuman, Matthew Nelson (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Part IV: Life After/With God: Post-Secularism, Trauma, and Recovery
8. Douglas Coupland, Charles Taylor, and Spirituality in Modernity, Tony Watkins (Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK) and Steve Taylor (Flinders University, New Zealand)
9. Trauma and Spirituality in Douglas Coupland's Hey Nostradamus! Sarah Wagstaffe (Lancaster University, UK)
10. Prayer is Apocalypse, Mary McCampbell (independent scholar, USA)
Part V: Coupland in Space and Time: Nostalgia, Nation, and History
11. Flying over 'Raw Nature', Jessica McDonald (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
12. 'When you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you', Nick Hubble (Brunel University London, UK)
13. Post-Cynical Fiction at the End of History, Zachary Gordon (Regent College, Vancouver, Canada)
Part VI: Interviews
14. 'Sometimes I feel like an app, Doug the app', Diletta De Cristofaro ,(Northumbria University, UK) Mary McCampbell (independent scholar, USA) and Andrew Tate (Lancaster University, UK)
15. Douglas Coupland in Ten Short Answers, Mary McCampbell (independent scholar, USA)
Product details
| Published | Apr 15 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350459441 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 5 bw illus |
| Series | New Horizons in Contemporary Writing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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