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Walsh, Richard

 
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Novel Arguments, first published in 1995, argues that innovative fiction extends our ways of thinking about the world.

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Novel Arguments, first published in 1995, argues that innovative fiction extends our ways of thinking about the world, rejecting the critical consensus that, under the rubrics of postmodernism and metafiction, homogenises this fiction as autonomous and self-absorbed.

Contenuti

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The idea of innovative fiction; 2. How to succeed: Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father; 3. 'A man's story is his gris-gris': cultural slavery, literary emancipation and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada; 4. Narrative inscription, history and the reader in Robert Coover's The Public Burning; 5. 'One's image of oneself': Structured identity in Walter Abish's How German Is It; 6. The quest for love and the writing of female desire in Kathy Acker's Don Quixote; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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