Ben Lerner’s novels and the syntax of collectivity
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- Marco Caracciolo (UGent)
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- NARMESH (Narrating the Mesh: Ecology and the Non-Human in Contemporary Fiction and Oral Storytelling (NARMESH))
- Abstract
- Examining Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, and The Topeka School (2011–2019), this article reads Lerner’s novels as centrally engaged in the (re)imagination of community. In the first two novels, this negotiation of collectivity involves essayistic reflection on poetry as an artistic mode that is strongly attuned to the collective, through the affect elicited by prosody. By contrast, in the third novel, Lerner translates the insights offered by the previous works into a narrative-level syntax that captures the intermental functioning of a community in the titular Topeka.
- Keywords
- Affect, community, embodiment, form, intersubjectivity, narrative, poetry
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01GP4NV69GHKXPJWK57GCMK6SE
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- Caracciolo, Marco. “Ben Lerner’s Novels and the Syntax of Collectivity.” CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION, vol. 65, no. 2, 2024, pp. 235–47, doi:10.1080/00111619.2022.2164172.
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- Caracciolo, M. (2024). Ben Lerner’s novels and the syntax of collectivity. CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION, 65(2), 235–247. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2164172
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- Caracciolo, Marco. 2024. “Ben Lerner’s Novels and the Syntax of Collectivity.” CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION 65 (2): 235–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2164172.
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- Caracciolo, Marco. 2024. “Ben Lerner’s Novels and the Syntax of Collectivity.” CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION 65 (2): 235–247. doi:10.1080/00111619.2022.2164172.
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- 1.Caracciolo M. Ben Lerner’s novels and the syntax of collectivity. CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION. 2024;65(2):235–47.
- IEEE
- [1]M. Caracciolo, “Ben Lerner’s novels and the syntax of collectivity,” CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 235–247, 2024.
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