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UNINA9910957093203321 |
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Autore |
Karnicky Jeffrey |
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Titolo |
Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture / / by J. Karnicky |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
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ISBN |
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9786611362799 |
9781281362797 |
1281362794 |
9780230603592 |
0230603599 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2007.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century |
America - Literatures |
Communication |
Culture - Study and teaching |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
North American Literature |
Media and Communication |
Cultural Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-181) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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