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  1. Aggressive Fictions
    Reading the Contemporary American Novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: [2011]; © 2011
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

    A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem... more

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    A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers-or to disorient them by shunning traditional plot patterns and character development. Kathryn Hume calls such works "aggressive fiction." Why would authors risk alienating their readers-and why should readers persevere? Looking beyond the theory-based justifications that critics often provide for such fiction, Hume offers a commonsense guide for the average reader who wants to better understand and appreciate books that might otherwise seem difficult to enjoy.In her reliable and sympathetic guide, Hume considers roughly forty works of recent American fiction, including books by William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Chuck Palahniuk, and Cormac McCarthy. Hume gathers "attacks" on the reader into categories based on narrative structure and content. Writers of some aggressive fictions may wish to frustrate easy interpretation or criticism. Others may try to induce certain responses in readers. Extreme content deployed as a tactic for distancing and alienating can actually produce a contradictory effect: for readers who learn to relax and go with the flow, the result may well be exhilaration rather than revulsion

     
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  2. Aggressive Fictions
    Reading the Contemporary American Novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: [2011]; ©2011
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

    A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem... more

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    A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers-or to disorient them by shunning traditional plot patterns and character development. Kathryn Hume calls such works "aggressive fiction." Why would authors risk alienating their readers-and why should readers persevere? Looking beyond the theory-based justifications that critics often provide for such fiction, Hume offers a commonsense guide for the average reader who wants to better understand and appreciate books that might otherwise seem difficult to enjoy.In her reliable and sympathetic guide, Hume considers roughly forty works of recent American fiction, including books by William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Chuck Palahniuk, and Cormac McCarthy. Hume gathers "attacks" on the reader into categories based on narrative structure and content. Writers of some aggressive fictions may wish to frustrate easy interpretation or criticism. Others may try to induce certain responses in readers. Extreme content deployed as a tactic for distancing and alienating can actually produce a contradictory effect: for readers who learn to relax and go with the flow, the result may well be exhilaration rather than revulsion.

     
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    Subjects: Aggressiveness in literature; American fiction; American fiction; Aggressiveness in literature; American fiction; American fiction; Aggressiveness in literature.; American fiction.; American fiction.
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    Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Preface -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: The Author-Reader Contract -- -- 1. Narrative Speed in Contemporary Fiction -- -- 2. Modalities of Complaint -- -- 3. Conjugations of the Grotesque -- -- 4. Violence -- -- 5. Attacking the Reader’s Ontological Assumptions -- -- Conclusion: Why Read Aggressive Fictions? -- -- Notes -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index
  3. Fantasy and mimesis
    responses to reality in western literature
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9781315759227
    RVK Categories: EC 1970
    Series: Routledge revivals
    Subjects: Fantastische Literatur; Mimesis; Literatur; Fantasie
    Scope: XVI, 213 S.
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    First published in 1984 by Methuen, London
  4. American dream, American nightmare
    fiction since 1960
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield

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    ISBN: 0252025563; 9780252025563; 9780252070570
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Subjects: Roman
    Scope: 359 Seiten
  5. Calvino's fictions: cogito and cosmos
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Clarendon Press, Oxford

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    Subjects: Prosa
    Other subjects: Calvino, Italo (1923-1985)
    Scope: 212 S., graph. Darst.
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    Bibliogr. u. Literaturverz. I. Calvino S. [187] - 203
  6. American dream, American nightmare
    fiction since 1960
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0252070577; 0252025563
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    Subjects: Literatur; Prosa; Verlust <Motiv>
    Scope: 359 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. [319] - 345
  7. The metamorphoses of myth in fiction since 1960
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

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    ISBN: 9781501359873
    Subjects: Mythos <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: XII, 192 Seiten
  8. The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction Since 1960
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    ISBN: 9781501359897; 9781501359880
    Subjects: Mythos <Motiv>; Literatur
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  9. Aggressive fictions
    reading the contemporary American novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca,NY [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9780801450013; 0801450012
    RVK Categories: HU 1810
    Subjects: Englisch; Roman; Aggressivität
    Scope: XIII, 200 S., 23x15x2 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [185] - 193
  10. Aggressive fictions
    reading the contemporary American novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Kathryn Hume describes and defines a fascinating facet of American fiction, a willingness to put-off its own readers in ways that they find difficult to fathom. more

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    Kathryn Hume describes and defines a fascinating facet of American fiction, a willingness to put-off its own readers in ways that they find difficult to fathom.

     
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    Subjects: Englisch; Roman; Aggressivität; Aggressiveness in literature; American fiction; American fiction
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  11. Aggressive fictions
    reading the contemporary American novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca ; [ProQuest], [Ann Arbor, Michigan]

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    Subjects: Englisch; Roman; Aggressivität
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  12. Aggressive Fictions
    Reading the Contemporary American Novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: [2011]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem... more

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    A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers-or to disorient them by shunning traditional plot patterns and character development. Kathryn Hume calls such works "aggressive fiction." Why would authors risk alienating their readers-and why should readers persevere? Looking beyond the theory-based justifications that critics often provide for such fiction, Hume offers a commonsense guide for the average reader who wants to better understand and appreciate books that might otherwise seem difficult to enjoy.In her reliable and sympathetic guide, Hume considers roughly forty works of recent American fiction, including books by William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Chuck Palahniuk, and Cormac McCarthy. Hume gathers "attacks" on the reader into categories based on narrative structure and content. Writers of some aggressive fictions may wish to frustrate easy interpretation or criticism. Others may try to induce certain responses in readers. Extreme content deployed as a tactic for distancing and alienating can actually produce a contradictory effect: for readers who learn to relax and go with the flow, the result may well be exhilaration rather than revulsion.

     
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  13. Fantasy and mimesis
    responses to reality in Western literature
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 1984
    Publisher:  Methuen, New York [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0416380107; 0416380204
    RVK Categories: EC 1970
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: University paperbacks ; 872.
    Subjects: Fantastische Literatur; Literatur; Mimesis; Fantasie
    Scope: 213 S.
  14. Pynchon's mythography
    an approach to Gravity's rainbow
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  Southern Illinois Univ. Press, Carbondale u.a.

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    ISBN: 080931357X
    RVK Categories: HU 4797
    Series: Crosscurrents, modern critiques / 3
    Subjects: Gravity's rainbow (Pynchon); Mythe dans la littérature; Myth in literature; Mythos
    Other subjects: Pynchon, Thomas <1937-> / Gravity's rainbow; Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's rainbow; Pynchon, Thomas (1937-): Gravity's rainbow
    Scope: XXI, 262 S.
  15. Pynchon's Against the Day
    A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide
    Author: Severs, Jeffrey
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Delaware, Lanham

    The first book of criticism devoted to Pynschon's massive 2006 novel, Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide gathers new work by more than a dozen scholars, offering readings informed by the newest developments in narratology, genre... more

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    The first book of criticism devoted to Pynschon's massive 2006 novel, Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide gathers new work by more than a dozen scholars, offering readings informed by the newest developments in narratology, genre studies, ecocriticism, globalism, and the histories of science and religion. This title also offers fresh perspectives on divisive issues within Pynchon studies, such as anarchism, gender, and reviewers' reception of his recent work. What emerges is a novel that will come to be seen, these essays argue, as a major part of Pynchon's storied le...

     
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    Contributor: Leise, Christopher; Benton, Graham; Coffman, Christopher K.; Dalsgaard, Inger H.; Elias, Amy J.; Hume, Kathryn; Kevorkian, Martin; McHale, Brian; McKetta, Elisabeth; Narkunas, J Paul
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    ISBN: 9781611490640; 9781611490657 (Sekundärausgabe)
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  16. American dream, American nightmare
    fiction since 1960
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana [u.a.]

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  17. Aggressive Fictions
    Reading the Contemporary American Novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: [2011]; © 2011
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

    A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem... more

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    A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers-or to disorient them by shunning traditional plot patterns and character development. Kathryn Hume calls such works "aggressive fiction." Why would authors risk alienating their readers-and why should readers persevere? Looking beyond the theory-based justifications that critics often provide for such fiction, Hume offers a commonsense guide for the average reader who wants to better understand and appreciate books that might otherwise seem difficult to enjoy.In her reliable and sympathetic guide, Hume considers roughly forty works of recent American fiction, including books by William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Chuck Palahniuk, and Cormac McCarthy. Hume gathers "attacks" on the reader into categories based on narrative structure and content. Writers of some aggressive fictions may wish to frustrate easy interpretation or criticism. Others may try to induce certain responses in readers. Extreme content deployed as a tactic for distancing and alienating can actually produce a contradictory effect: for readers who learn to relax and go with the flow, the result may well be exhilaration rather than revulsion

     
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  18. The metamorphoses of myth in fiction since 1960
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    "Explores the functions of mythology in contemporary high and popular literature, charting how it reacts with our science-oriented and postmodern culture"-- more

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    "Explores the functions of mythology in contemporary high and popular literature, charting how it reacts with our science-oriented and postmodern culture"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501359903; 9781501359897; 9781501359880
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    RVK Categories: HG 680
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Folklore, myths & legends / bicssc; Myth in literature; Mythology in literature; Metamorphosis in literature; Meaning (Philosophy) in literature; Fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Fiction / 21st century / History and criticism; English fiction / English-speaking countries / History and criticism; Mythos; Englisch; Roman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 192 Seiten)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Preface -- Prolegomenon: Myth as a Tool in the Artist's Toolbox -- Multiple Selves and Egyptian Mythology: Mailer, Burroughs, Reed, Zelazny -- Mythological Worlds and Death: Acker, Gibson, Gaiman, Byatt, Kennedy, Pynchon, Morrow -- Orpheus and Eurydice: Variations on a Theme: Delany, Hospital, Phillips, Hoban, Gaiman, Powers, and others -- Invented Myth: The Problem of Power: Acker, Barthelme, Hoban, Moore, Calvino, and Gaiman -- Situational Myth: Posthuman Metamorphoses: McIntyre, McCaffrey, Simmons, Doctorow, Piercy, Stross, Rucker, Tidhar -- The Contemporary Functions of Myth as Artistic Tool: Pynchon, Arthurian stories, Faber, Pullman, Morrow, Ducornet, Marcus, Atwood, Vonnegut, Naylor, Morrison, Silko, Östergren, Winterson, Grossman, Rucker -- Conclusion. - Mode of access: World Wide Web
  19. Aggressive fictions
    reading the contemporary American novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780801450013; 0801450012; 9780801462870
    Subjects: Aggressiveness in literature; American fiction; American fiction; Aggressivität; Roman
    Scope: 1 online resource (217 pages)
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  20. Aggressive fictions
    reading the contemporary American novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780801450013
    RVK Categories: HU 1810
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Aggressiveness in literature; American fiction; American fiction; Aversion in literature; Aggressivität; Roman
    Scope: XIII, 200 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  21. American dream, American nightmare
    fiction since 1960
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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  22. The concept of the hall in Old English poetry
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 1974

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    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Article (journal)
    Parent title:
    Anglo-Saxon England; Cambridge [u.a.], 1974; 3.1974, 63-74
    Subjects: Poetik; Quellenkunde; Terminologie; Halle
  23. Fantasy and mimesis
    responses to reality in western literature
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon [u.a.]

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781315759227
    RVK Categories: EC 1970
    Series: Routledge revivals
    Subjects: Fantastische Literatur; Fantasie; Mimesis; Literatur
    Scope: XVI, 213 S.
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    First published in 1984 by Methuen, London
  24. Aggressive fictions
    reading the contemporary American novel
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY [u.a.]

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  25. American dream, American nightmare
    fiction since 1960
    Author: Hume, Kathryn
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Springfield

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    Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0252025563; 9780252025563; 9780252070570
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Subjects: USA; Roman; Geschichte 1960-1999
    Scope: 359 Seiten