Speculation and Fiction

Authors

  • Sourit Bhattacharya
  • Arka Chattopadhyay

Abstract

As students of literature, one of the most frequent questions we encounter is: how does one write anything? What are the factors responsible for writing fiction? Does fiction have its autonomous qualities? Put in a slightly different way: what is thought or how is thought put into fiction? Broadly speaking, the study into the domain of thought is speculation. The Oxford English dictionary defines “speculation” this way:

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Author Biographies

Sourit Bhattacharya

Sourit Bhattacharya is doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He works in historical crisis and literary realism in the twentieth century Indian novel. His broader areas of interest include colonial and postcolonial studies, especially South Asia and Southern Africa, world-literature, environment studies, materialist aesthetics, and crime fiction. 

Arka Chattopadhyay

Arka Chattopadhyay is an M.A, MPhil in English Literature, Jadavpur University, India. Having finished his MPHIL on Samuel Beckett and Alain Badiou, he is now pursuing his PHD at Writing and Society at University of Western Sydney on Samuel Beckett and Lacanian Psychoanalysis under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Uhlmann and Dr. Alex Ling. He has presented at conferences like 2010 and 2011 NEMLA Conventions, 2012 International Samuel Beckett Working Group and the 2014 Oxford Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies Symposium. His articles have been published in books, anthologies and journals like Miranda and Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui. He has edited the book Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature with James Martell, published by Roman Books, London in 2013. Along with Sourit Bhattacharya, he is the editor of the peer-reviewed online academic journal Sanglap. He has a chapter titled ‘“I switch off”: Towards a Beckettian Minority of Theatrical Event’, forthcoming in Palgrave MacMillan’s 2015 book Deleuze and Beckett edited by Stephen Wilmer et al.

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Published

2021-10-28

How to Cite

Bhattacharya , S. ., & Chattopadhyay , A. (2021). Speculation and Fiction. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2(1), 1–24. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/42

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): Speculation and Fiction

Section

Articles