The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction As Language/Language As Fiction - Rilegato

Klinkowitz, Jerome

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ISBN 10: 080931164X ISBN 13: 9780809311644

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1984

Riassunto

?The novel is dead” was the cry of the 1960s, and so it was as an authoritative report concerning the world; but from that death, Klinkowitz argues, arose a form of writing that celebrates the crea­tive process, a narrative that is not about something but is something.

 

Klinkowitz first characterizes the ?modern” fiction of the earlier 20th cen­tury wherein the word fades into the background because the story line forms the essence of the fiction. Thus the word is ?self-effacing.” Postmodern fiction, on the other hand, features the word. Words in postmodern fiction are opaque, not transparent. Of necessity we notice the word and must look closely at it; thus the word becomes ?self-apparent.”

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L'autore:

Jerome Klinkowitz is Professor of En­glish at the University of Northern Iowa. The present book provides the theory to accompany his literary history (Literary Disruptions, 1975) and his cultural sur­vey (The American 1960s, 1980).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 080931164X
• ISBN 13: 9780809311644
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 168