| Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction Contributor(s): Richard, Walsh (Author), Walsh, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521107032 ISBN-13: 9780521107037 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2009 Annotation: Novel Arguments argues that innovative fiction extends our ways of thinking about the world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.540 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Novel Arguments deals with American innovative (postmodern, metafictional, experimental) fiction since the sixties. It advances a concept of the argument of fiction to correct criticism's too purely formal interest in innovation. The book closely examines the readings of five important innovative novels by Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, Robert Coover, Walter Abish, and Kathy Acker and shows how they achieve an effective articulation of their concerns by virtue of their innovation, which is aimed at a making new of fictional cognition. |