Passionate doubts : designs of interpretation in contemporary American fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: O'Donnell, Patrick, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1986.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism.
Reader-response criticism.
Semiotics and literature.
Self in literature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esthétique de la réception.
Sémiotique et littérature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Psychological fiction, American
Reader-response criticism
Self in literature
Semiotics and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Fiction and Interpretation, a Dialogue; One: Nabokov's Watermark: Writing the Self in Pale Fire; Two: Self-Alignment: John Hawkes' Travesty; Three: Self, Narrative, History: The System of John Barth's 'Letter'; Four: "A Book of Traces": Gravity's Rainbow; Five: The World Dactylic: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood; Six: The Wor(l)d Made Elesh: Stanley Elkin's The Franchiser; Seven: Entanglement: The Reader in Contemporary Fiction; Notes; Index.

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