Narrative, Digitality, Well-Being

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The book examines new literary narratives, new philosophies of digitality, and new approaches to cross-disciplinary work between narrative theory and psychology in the context of digital environments, interactions, and practices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-04-10
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt381 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor188
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031871153

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Michael O’Sullivan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at United Arab Emirates University and Research Associate at the Department of English of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and the Irish Society of Guidance Counsellors and has many years experience counselling and advising students in colleges, schools and universities in Ireland, the UK, Japan, Hong Kong and the UAE. Michael has published 15 books in the fields of literature, education studies and philosophy. Recent books include Cloneliness: on the reproduction of loneliness (2019/2021); Weakness: a literary and philosophical history (2012/2014); and Academic barbarism, universities and inequality (2016/2018). His first novel Lockdown Lovers was published with Penguin in 2021.

.- 1. Introduction: the philosophy of digitality.- 2: Digitality and the new narratives.- 3: Narrative theory and narrative therapy: the unexplored narratives of wellbeing.- 4: The incorporation of digitality into contemporary novels: Jennifer Egan, Sally Rooney, Ted Chiang, Anton Hur and Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan.- Narratives of Burnout: Digital echoes through nostalgic means in Sally Rooney, Mieko Kawakami, Max Porter and Sarah Manguso.- 6. The Impact of Narrative Identity through Online Narratives on Wellbeing Among Young People in Hong Kong and China.- 7. Technology in the English classroom and lecture theatre in Ireland: teachers’ perspectives on wellbeing and the language of narration.