Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American FictionCambridge University Press, 29/09/1995 - 179 من الصفحات 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. |
المحتوى
Donald Barthelmes The Dead Father | 43 |
Cultural Slavery | 65 |
in Robert Coovers The Public Burning | 85 |
The Quest for Love and the Writing of Female Desire | 135 |
Conclusion | 161 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abish abstract Acker's aesthetic affirmation Alphabetical Africa American argument articulation attempt attention authority autonomy Barthelme's Barthes Cervantes characters concept of postmodernism confrontation consciousness contemporary context critical cultural Dead Father defamiliarization defined discourse dominant Don Quixote Donald Barthelme Einzieh Group emancipation emotional engagement equation exploration fact familiar feminist Flight to Canada formal frame framework function fundamental German Ibid identity immanence implies innovative fiction interpretation interview involves Ishmael Reed John Barth Kathy Acker Klinkowitz language Larry McCaffery literary literature logic means metafiction metaphor mimesis modernism moral narration Nixon novel object paradoxical plagiarism play political possible postmodernism Public Burning question Quickskill Quickskill's reader realism reality Reed's relation relationship representation response Robert Coover role Ronald Sukenick Rosenbergs satire self-consciousness sexual significance slave narrative slavery social story strategy structure substance Swille Thomas tion Ulrich Uncle Sam Walter Abish William Gass women writing York