Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 91)

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ISBN-10:

0521471451

ISBN-13:

9780521471459

Author(s): Walsh, Richard
Released: Sep 29, 1995
Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
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Description:

Novel Arguments deals with American innovative (postmodern, metafictional, experimental) fiction since the sixties. It advances a concept of the "argument" of fiction to correct criticism's too purely formal interest in innovation. The book closely examines the readings of five important innovative novels by Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, Robert Coover, Walter Abish, and Kathy Acker and shows how they achieve an effective articulation of their concerns by virtue of their innovation, which is aimed at a making new of fictional cognition.

























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