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Contemporary fiction and the ethics of modern culture [[electronic resource] /] / Jeffrey Karnicky



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Autore: Karnicky Jeffrey Visualizza persona
Titolo: Contemporary fiction and the ethics of modern culture [[electronic resource] /] / Jeffrey Karnicky Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. ; ; Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
Disciplina: 820.90092
823.91409355
Soggetto topico: English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism
English literature - 21st century - History and criticism
Ethics in literature
Popular culture in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary fiction and the ethics of modern culture  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-36279-4
9786611362799
0-230-60359-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450938803321
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