Berry / Di Leo Fiction's Present

Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7920-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 311 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Fiction writers and critics engage the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, R. M.

Di Leo, Jeffrey R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
R. M. Berry and Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Acknowledgments

Introduction: 12 Theses on Fiction's Present
R. M. Berry and Jeffrey R. Di Leo

1. Fiction's Present: Brief Notes
Samuel R. Delany 2. Innovative Fiction and the Poetics of Power: Gertrude Stein and Christine Brooke-Rose "Do" Language
Christina Milletti 3. To Have Done with Postmodernism: A Plea (or Provocation) for Globalization Studies
Timothy S. Murphy 4. Fiction's Present without Basis
Leslie Scalapino 5. Convinced by Fiction, Convinced by History: Three Novels
Joseph McElroy 6. American World-Fiction in the Longue Durée
Joseph Tabbi 7. Post-postmodern Discontent: Contemporary Fiction and the Social World
Robert L. McLaughlin 8. Toward the Edge of the Hermetic: Notes on Raising Fiction from the Dead
Lidia Yuknavitch 9. The Self-Deceiving Muse: Fiction and the Rationalistic Dictates of the Present
Alan Singer 10. Notes on Fiction and Philosophy
Brian Evenson 11. James, Cather, Vollmann, and the Distinction of Historical Fiction
Robert L. Caserio 12. Fourteen Notes toward the Musicality of Creative Disjunction, or Fiction by Collage
Lance Olsen 13. Mount Rushmore: Four Brief Essays on Fictions
Michael Martone 14. Recognition as a Depleted Source in Lynne Tillman's Motion Sickness
Sue-Im Lee 15. A Modality
Percival Everett 16. Critifictional Reflections on the Pathetic Condition of the Novel in Our Time
Raymond Federman 17. Henry Miller to Henry James
Ronald Sukenick 18. In Their Own Words: The Collective Presents Itself
Jerome Klinkowitz 19. World Book
Carole Maso Afterword: Two Presents
Brian McHale About the Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

R. M. Berry is Professor of English at Florida State University and author of the novel Frank. Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Associate Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston at Victoria and editor of the American Book Review and symploke.