The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel

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1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
1. 1 Aliens in America No access
2. 2 The Digital Intensification of Postmodern Poetics No access
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 No access
4. 4 Self-Parody and the Aesthetics of Literary Transgression in John Hawkes’s An Irish Eye and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice No access
5. 5 Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction No access
1. 6 Techno-Anxiety as New Middlebrow No access
2. 7 Post-Apocalypse Now No access
3. 8 Ghostly Presences No access
4. 9 Postmodern Autonomy and the Poetics of Genre in Matt Ruff’s Novels No access
5. 10 Purposing the Familiar No access
1. 11 The Heirs of Don Quixote No access
2. 12 Reimagining Genre in the Contemporary Immigrant Novel No access
3. 13 Looking Beneath the Surface No access
4. 14 Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture in Dave Eggers’s Literature No access
Bibliography No access Pages 271 - 284
Index No access Pages 285 - 288
About the Contributors No access Pages 289 - 292