Vanessa Guignery and Wojciech Drąg, eds. The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction.
Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2019.
Table of contents
Vanessa Guignery, École Normale Supérieure in Lyon and Wojciech Drąg, University of Wrocław
Introduction: “The art of the fragment”
Part One: Forms of fragmentation: past and present
Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina at Asheville
“What is fragmentary fiction?”
Mariano D’Ambrosio, University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle
“Fragmentary writing and polyphonic narratives in twenty-first century fiction”
David Malcolm, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw
“The short story: fragment and augment”
Part Two: The fragment and the whole
Marcin Tereszewski, University of Wrocław
“The architectural fragment: ruins and totality in J. G. Ballard’s fiction”
Gerd Bayer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
“Fragmentary transtextuality: David Mitchell and his novel”
Alicia J. Rouverol, University of Manchester
“Fragmentary writing and globalization in Ali Smith’s Hotel World”
Teresa Bruś, University of Wrocław
“Lives, etc: fragments of lives in short stories by Julian Barnes”
Maria Antonietta Struzziero, Independent Scholar
“‘Make it new’ to return as rupture and difference: a study of Jeanette Winterson’s
The Gap of Time”
Part Three: Fragmentation in the age of crisis
Wojciech Drąg, University of Wrocław
“Collage manifestos: fragmentation and appropriation in David Markson’s This Is Not a Novel and David Shields’s Reality Hunger”
Jarosław Hetman, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń
“Fragmentation in David Foster Wallace’s fiction”
Caroline Magnin, University Paris 4 – Sorbonne
“Trauma and the mechanics of fragmentation in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer”
Part Four: Multimodal and multimedial fragments
Grzegorz Maziarczyk, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
“Singularity, multimodality, transmediality: fragmentary future(s) of the novel?”
Zofia Kolbuszewska, University of Wrocław
“From Wunderkammer fragmentation to alternative history in Hexen 2.0 by Suzanne Treister”
Côme Martin, Independent Scholar
“Unbox the story: a look at contemporary shuffle narratives”
Deborah Bridle, University of Côte d’Azur
“Fragmentation as building practice: the literary and musical collaboration between Thomas Ligotti and Current 93 for In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land”
Alison Gibbons, Sheffield Hallam University
Afterword: “Fragments of a postscript”