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Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture) - Hardcover

Walsh, Richard

 
9780521471459: Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521471451 ISBN 13: 9780521471459
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Novel Arguments, first published in 1995, argues that innovative fiction extends our ways of thinking about the world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Walsh is Professor of Religion at Methodist University in Fayettevile, North Carolina, and is the author of Reading the Gospels in the Dark and co-editor with Aichele of Screening Scripture.

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Novel arguments argues that innovative fiction - by which is meant writing that has been variously labeled postmodern, metafictional, experimental - extends our ways of thinking about the world, and rejects the critical consensus that, under the rubrics of postmodernism and metafiction, homogenizes this fiction as autonomous and self-absorbed. Play, self-consciousness, and immanence - supposed symptoms of innovative fiction's autonomy - are here reconsidered as integral to its means of engagement. The book advances a concept of the "argument" of fiction as a construct wedding structure and content into a highly evolved and expressive experimental form. Close readings of five important innovative novels by Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, Robert Coover, Walter Abish, and Kathy Acker show how they articulate matters of substance, social engagement, and ideological currency by virtue of the act of innovation. Walsh deftly argues for a new understanding of fictional cognition at the theoretical level, and, in an act of great critical creativity, discards altogether the flattening totalities of received postmodern formulations.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521471451
ISBN 13 
9780521471459
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
200
Herausgeber
Gelpi Albert, Posnock Ross
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