03330nam 22008895 450 991095709320332120240508222621.09786611362799978128136279712813627949780230603592023060359910.1057/9780230603592(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(Perlego)3506510(EXLCZ)99100000000034242920151124d2007 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture /by J. Karnicky1st ed. 2007.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2007.1 online resource (198 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349537655 1349537659 9781403977601 1403977607 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.Literature, Modern20th centuryAmericaLiteraturesCommunicationCultureStudy and teachingTwentieth-Century LiteratureNorth American LiteratureMedia and CommunicationCultural StudiesLiterature, ModernAmericaLiteratures.Communication.CultureStudy and teaching.Twentieth-Century Literature.North American Literature.Media and Communication.Cultural Studies.820.90092823.91409355Karnicky Jeffrey1687517MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957093203321Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture4334519UNINA