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Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction

Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 91

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521107032
ISBN13: 9780521107037
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 2 2009
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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