Titlebook: Jeff Noon‘s "Vurt"; A Critical Companion Andrew C. Wenaus Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licens

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Orpheus and His Limbic Decks: Avant-Pulp Bricolage and Rites of Passage,rworld. By revisiting the Greek myth of Orpheus and his lover Eurydice, Noon replaces Orpheus’s lyre with Scribble’s turntables. While Orpheus convinces the gods of the underworld to permit the return of his lost love, Eurydice, from the underworld (with tragic consequences), Scribble repeatedly att

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,Conclusion: What Literature Thinks—, and Neuroemancipation,vel, Noon employs Douglas R. Hofstadter’s concept of the “strange loop” to investigate this impasse. A “strange loop” is a structure that, no matter how once moves through it upwards or downwards, one always lands at the point of departure. At once a metaphor for trauma, strange loops also represent

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Totally Feathered Up in Bottletown: Imagining Manchester,e on individuals, even the most rigid civic environment can be navigated .. The same is true in terms of literary representations of place: Noon insists that we must learn to endlessly reiterate, mutate, and re-imagine the ways we write our experience of lived reality.

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,Conclusion: What Literature Thinks—, and Neuroemancipation,s an individual’s struggle for autonomy in the digital era. While digital technologies increasingly seek to “think” for us, Noon asks what literature itself can think. While . can be a heartbreaking novel, it also affirms the power of creative, poetic energy, and art’s role in reshaping lived reality.

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2662-8562 ature.Develops the relationship of the novel’s form to vario.This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon’s 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 li