The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel

Tim Lanzendörfer

doi:10.5771/9781498517294

Zusammenfassung

The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel investigates the role of genre in the contemporary novel: taking its departure from the observation that numerous contemporary novelists make use of popular genre influences in what are still widely considered to be literary novels, it sketches the uses, the work, and the value of genre. It suggests the value of a critical look at texts’ genre use for an analysis of the contemporary moment. From this, it develops a broader perspective, suggesting the value of genre criticism and taking into view traditional genres such as the bildungsroman and the metafictional novel as well as the kinds of amalgamated forms which have recently come to prominence. In essays discussing a wide range of authors from Steven Hall to Bret Easton Ellis to Colson Whitehead, the contributors to the volume develop their own readings of genre’s work and valence in the contemporary novel.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-1728-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-1729-4
Verlag: Lexington, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 292
Produkttyp: Monographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Contents Kein Zugriff
2. Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 14
1. 1 Aliens in America Kein Zugriff
2. 2 The Digital Intensification of Postmodern Poetics Kein Zugriff
3. 3 The Black Box of Genre in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist and Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Kein Zugriff
4. 4 Self-Parody and the Aesthetics of Literary Transgression in John Hawkes’s An Irish Eye and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice Kein Zugriff
5. 5 Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction Kein Zugriff
1. 6 Techno-Anxiety as New Middlebrow Kein Zugriff
2. 7 Post-Apocalypse Now Kein Zugriff
3. 8 Ghostly Presences Kein Zugriff
4. 9 Postmodern Autonomy and the Poetics of Genre in Matt Ruff’s Novels Kein Zugriff
5. 10 Purposing the Familiar Kein Zugriff
1. 11 The Heirs of Don Quixote Kein Zugriff
2. 12 Reimagining Genre in the Contemporary Immigrant Novel Kein Zugriff
3. 13 Looking Beneath the Surface Kein Zugriff
4. 14 Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture in Dave Eggers’s Literature Kein Zugriff
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 271 - 284
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 285 - 288
About the Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 289 - 292