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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957093203321

Autore

Karnicky Jeffrey

Titolo

Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture / / by J. Karnicky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

9786611362799

9781281362797

1281362794

9780230603592

0230603599

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Disciplina

820.90092

823.91409355

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century

America - Literatures

Communication

Culture - Study and teaching

Twentieth-Century Literature

North American Literature

Media and Communication

Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Assembling an Ethics of Reading; 1 Between Reading and Writing: Susan Daitch, David Markson, and "Bartleby""; 2 Fascinated Disgust in Richard Powers; 3 Kinds of Stasis in David Foster Wallace; 4 Silence Junkies: Irvine Welsh's Novel Subjectivities; Conclusion: The Demand of Bartleby; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh,



this book looks at how these works seek to transform the ways that readers live in the world.