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Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth

Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth

Danziger, Marie A.
Rudnick, Hans H.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, Book 3

Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

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ISBN10: 082042871X
ISBN13: 9780820428710
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jan 1 1997
Pages: 120
Language: English
Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth analyzes the psychological and structural dynamic of three postmodern novels: Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, and Philip Roth's The Counterlife. Storytelling becomes here the dangerous activity of a guilty outsider who has come to expect hostile disapproval from all quarters. The result is a sadomasochistic confrontation between these postmodern writers and their imagined audiences: the pleasure of storytelling is linked to the pain the authors inflict upon their readers in retaliation for their anticipated disapproval. The structural consequence is serial negation - the constant agonistic oscillation between text and countertext, reflecting the authors' determined efforts to sidestep criticism and maintain artistic control.

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