Designs of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction / / Arthur M. Saltzman.
This study examines some of the ways in which fiction has traditionally conspired to promote a goal-oriented vision of a work of art and explores the ways in which postmodern (or postrealist) fiction consistently and unavoidably subverts the clarity of this vision. Offering readings of works by well...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (158 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: A De-Meaning Poetics
- 2. Epiphany and Its Discontents
- 3. Deregulating Histories
- 4. De(in)forming the Plot
- 5. Opacity, Resistance, and the Uncommunicative Text
- 6. The End of Value?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter