Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel /

A frequent complaint about 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...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Hume, Kathryn, 1945-
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2012.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7v8kr
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • The author-reader contract
  • Narrative speed in contemporary fiction
  • Modalities of complaint
  • Conjugations of the grotesque
  • Violence
  • Attacking the reader's ontological assumptions
  • Why read aggressive fictions?