03274nam 2200793Ia 450 991045093880332120200520144314.01-281-36279-497866113627990-230-60359-910.1057/9780230603592(CKB)1000000000342429(EBL)307696(OCoLC)314793962(SSID)ssj0001657610(PQKBManifestationID)16442245(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001657610(PQKBWorkID)14985568(PQKB)10966959(SSID)ssj0000292616(PQKBManifestationID)11228990(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292616(PQKBWorkID)10269586(PQKB)11469621(DE-He213)978-0-230-60359-2(MiAaPQ)EBC307696(Au-PeEL)EBL307696(CaPaEBR)ebr10171507(CaONFJC)MIL136279(EXLCZ)99100000000034242920061206d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary fiction and the ethics of modern culture[electronic resource] /Jeffrey Karnicky1st ed.New York, N.Y. ;Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (198 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53765-9 1-4039-7760-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-181) and index.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; IndexThis 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.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature21st centuryHistory and criticismEthics in literaturePopular culture in literatureElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Ethics in literature.Popular culture in literature.820.90092823.91409355Karnicky Jeffrey980495MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450938803321Contemporary fiction and the ethics of modern culture2237175UNINA