Jeff Noon's 'Vurt' : a critical companion / Andrew C. Wenaus.

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Jeff Noon's 'Vurt' : a critical companion / Andrew C. Wenaus.

9783031070297 (electronic bk.)
3031070291 (electronic bk.)
9783031070280 (hbk.)
3031070283 (hbk.)

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

©2022

English

1 online resource (xv, 130 pages).

10.1007/978-3-031-07029-7 doi

PR6064.O45

823/.914

This book offers an examination of Jeff Noons iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the novels content, form, and theme. Finally, Wenaus makes the case for Vurts ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism, psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also an optimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures.

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