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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Tác giả chính: Hume, Kathryn, 1945-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2012.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7v8kr
Mục lục:
  • 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?