Publisher:
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD
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ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel studies the importance, the uses, and the changes in the work of genre in the contemporary novel. By looking at both the current interest in popular genres in literary writing, as well as at the...
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The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel studies the importance, the uses, and the changes in the work of genre in the contemporary novel. By looking at both the current interest in popular genres in literary writing, as well as at the currently ongoing changes to traditional genres, this book develops a broader perspective that suggests the value of genre criticism.
The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel studies the importance, the uses, and the changes in the work of genre in the contemporary novel. By looking at both the current interest in popular genres in literary writing, as well as at the...
more
The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel studies the importance, the uses, and the changes in the work of genre in the contemporary novel. By looking at both the current interest in popular genres in literary writing, as well as at the currently ongoing changes to traditional genres, this book develops a broader perspective that suggests the value of genre criticism. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Genre at the End of Postmodernism -- 1 Aliens in America -- 2 The Digital Intensification of Postmodern Poetics -- 3 The Black Box of Genre in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe -- 4 Self-Parody and the Aesthetics of Literary Transgression in John Hawkes's An Irish Eye and Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice -- 5 Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction -- II: Between High and Low, Literary and Popular -- 6 Techno-Anxiety as New Middlebrow -- 7 Post-Apocalypse Now -- 8 Ghostly Presences -- 9 Postmodern Autonomy and the Poetics of Genre in Matt Ruff's Novels -- 10 Purposing the Familiar -- III: Revisiting Traditional Genre(s) -- 11 The Heirs of Don Quixote -- 12 Reimagining Genre in the Contemporary Immigrant Novel -- 13 Looking Beneath the Surface -- 14 Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture in Dave Eggers's Literature -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
