The Maximalist Novel sets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed in the United States from the early 1970s, and then gained popularity in Europe in the early twenty-first century. The maximalist novel has a very strong...
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The Maximalist Novel sets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed in the United States from the early 1970s, and then gained popularity in Europe in the early twenty-first century. The maximalist novel has a very strong symbolic and morphological identity. Ercolino sets out ten particular elements which define and structure it as a complex literary form: length, an encyclopedic mode, dissonant chorality, diegetic exuberance, completeness, narrratorial omniscience, paranoid imagination, inter-semiocity, ethical commitment, and hybrid realism. These ten characteristics a
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; The Maximalist Novel; Introduction: Maximalist Paradigms; 1 "Art of excess": The systems novel; 2 "A paradoxical form": The Mega-Novel; 3 "In the eyes of the world": The modern epic; Part One; Chapter 1 Length; Chapter 2 Encyclopedic Mode; 1 An "encyclopedic novel"?; 2 An encyclopedic "genre"?; 3 The encyclopedic mode; Chapter 3 Dissonant Chorality; 1 Chorality; 2 Polyphony; Minimalism/Maximalism; Chapter 4 Diegetic Exuberance; Chapter 5 Completeness; 1 Structural practices of the maximalist novel
