The Self-Conscious Novel : : Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon / / Brian Stonehill.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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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 (232 p.) :; 4 illus.
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface and Acknowledgments --
I. Imitation's Limitations; or, Why Writers Write About Writers Writing --
II. The Repertoire of Reflexivity --
III. The Self-Conscious Tradition --
IV. Getting Back at James Joyce --
V. Nabokov's Imitations of Mortality --
VI. Plagiarizing The Recognitions --
VII. Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The Real World Inside Gravity's Rainbow --
VIII. A Trestle of LETTERS --
IX. The Criticism of Self-Consciousness --
X. Reflexive Commentary in the Form of a Conclusion --
Bibliography --
Index
Summary:This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781512807325
9783110442526
DOI:10.9783/9781512807325
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Brian Stonehill.