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Pride in place - Beyond the metrics: Insights from the Feeling Towns project
Full text linkThis brief uses insights from Feeling Towns to make recommendations for UK Government, local authorities and cultural-heritage bodies about the significance of understanding pride in shaping and evaluating policy.This is a newer version of the document Marsh, Nicky, Howcroft, Michael J and Owen, Joseph (2024) "Pride in place" beyond the metrics: insights from the Feeling Towns project (AHRC Place Programme Policy Brief Series) Arts and Humanities Research Council 3pp.https://doi.org/10.36399/gla.pubs.32192
'Paradise falls: a land lost in time': representing credit, debt and work after the crisis
No full textThis article examines the ways in which credit and debt have been explored since the 2008 financial crisis: suggesting a formal analogue in which an abstracted financial capital (credit) has been constructed against its concrete productive counterpart (debt). The first half of the paper traces this contrast through the theoretical vocabularies for credit and debt that have emerged since the crisis. The second half explores how this dyad is represented in popular culture, Andrew Niccol's 2011 In Time and Rian Johnson's Looper.It argues that they offer an alternative model of social debt, one that uses the connection between time and work to actively critique the movement from productive to financial capital
Infidelity to an impossible task: postmodernism, feminism and Lyn Hejinian’s 'My Life'
No full textThis paper locates the work and critical reception of the experimental poet Lyn Hejinian within the emerging debates of 'third-wave' feminist critique. It centrally argues that Hejinian's writing at once illuminates and undermines the apparent tensions between a feminist and an anti-foundationalist critical position. It specifically focuses on Hejinian's use of autobiography, as at once gesturing to the limitations of the theoretically naive self-knowing subject, steeped in the discredited assumptions of modernity, and the continuing cultural validity of and desire for narrative, identification, self-expression and referentiality. The paper argues that Hejinian's writing makes sense of this equivocation, not through its use of feminized tropes assumed to subvert the linear assumptions of the genre and render the reader 'active', but through an attention to the ironical complexities of her own cultural positioning. Hejinian's writing demonstrates how the representation of the postmodern feminist subject involves an attention to authoriality, to the possibilities of textual experimentation and to the cultural sites that legitimize the production of meaning for these things. Hejinian demonstrates not simply that feminism can reconcile a need for agency with a critique of agency, and that such an act needs to consider its collective implications, but that these kinds of claims actually require an engagement with the varied contexts that continue to make feminist's attention to literature meaningful.<br/
Credit culture: the politics of money in the American novel of the 1970s
No full textThis book offers a new reading of the relationship between money, culture and literature in America in the 1970s. The gold standard ended at the start of this decade, a moment which is routinely treated as a catalyst for the era of postmodern abstraction. This book provides an alternative narrative, one that traces the racialized and gendered histories of credit offered by the intertextual narratives of writers such as E.L Doctorow, Toni Morrison, Marilyn French, William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon and Don De Lillo. It argues that money in the 1970s is better read through a narrative of political consolidation than formal rupture as these histories foreground the closing down, rather than opening up, of serious debates about what American money should be and who it should serve. These novels and this moment remain important because they alert us to imagine the alternative histories of credit that were imaginatively proposed but never realized
In cite of the wall: democracy, poetry and the twenty-first century public (in special issue: The Fates and Futures of Feminism)
No full text'Hit your educable public right in the supermarket where they live': risk and failure in the work of William Gaddis
No full textThis essay explores political and aesthetic 'failure' in the work of William Gaddis, specifically arguing that failure was his critical response to the triumphalism of an emerging neo-liberalism. In the first half I argue that Gaddis drew on Norbert Wiener's 1950 The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society as a 'sourcebook' for his novel JR because it offered a critical counter-point to an increasingly hegemonic positivism. I specifically explore the parallels and divergences between the work of Wiener and his erstwhile colleague Milton Friedman to suggest that Wiener provided Gaddis with a formal and methodological alternative to the modelling of conservative economics. The second half of the article focuses on JR, drawing out the ways in which the novel draws on Wiener in order to make evident the importance of failure as a site of political and aesthetic critique. In this section I highlight how the 'difficult' formal properties of the novel offer their own parodic response to an empirical methodology: as they force us to question what it is that we know we know in an entirely different wa
Money, Speculation and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction
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A key monograph surveying the portrayal of finance and money in British fiction over the last thirty years.
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Fiction has become increasingly concerned with the political and imaginative significance of finance, speculation and the money markets - from Ian Fleming's Goldfinger to Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up and Martin Amis' Money. This book argues that recent British fiction demystifies the 'weightless' economy of contemporary money and critiques the popular sense of money as being everywhere but nowhere. The monograph provides a comprehensive survey of a large body of fictional texts that have striven to represent and understand the formative significance of finance capital on contemporary culture. In these novels, the implications of finance capitalism for political identity, for class politics, for the sovereignty of the nation state and a new global order are all explored, dramatised and critiqued. Authors covered include Margaret Drabble, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Coe, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis and Malcolm Bradbury.
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Fiction and the Fictitious: Reading the Money Economy
1. 'Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang': Money and the Thriller
2. Sound Money: Thatcher, Gender and the State
3. Bang, Boom, Bust: The Fortune of the City
4. Rogue Traders: The Professional Politics of Money in Popular Fiction
5. Women, Work and Risk
Conclusion: The Known and the Unknown
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Money’s doubles: reading, fiction, and finance capital
No full textThis article reads the ambivalence of the doubles that populate Martin Amis' novel Money through the doubles that money itself possesses: specifically the divergence between what have come to be thought of as financial and industrial forms of capital. The form of Amis' novel, I suggest, offers itself as a metaphorical critique of these divided forms, one that seeks to interrupt the deferred logic that has constructed what he has described as money's ‘tacit conspiracy’. Amis's novel can thus be read as an intervention in the very logic that has prevented the disastrous implications of finance capitalism's ascendancy from being realise
Democracy in Contemporary U.S Women's Poetry
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This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.S culture. Contents:Becoming Public;Paper Money and Tender Acts: Feminism and Democracy;The Poetics of Privacy: Writing the Lyric Self;Against the Outside: The Publics of Language Poetry;Go Grrrl: Democracy and Counter Culture;Romantic Materialism and Emerging Poets
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