Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture / / by J. Karnicky
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.90092 |
| 823.91409355 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature, Modern - 20th century |
| America - Literatures | |
| Communication | |
| Culture - Study and teaching | |
| Twentieth-Century Literature | |
| North American Literature | |
| Media and Communication | |
| Cultural Studies | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 9786611362799 |
| 9781281362797 | |
| 1281362794 | |
| 9780230603592 | |
| 0230603599 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910957093203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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