Eternalized fragments : reclaiming aesthetics in contemporary world fiction /

"Bridges discussions of traditional aesthetics with contemporary neuroaesthetics and evolutionary psychology and analyzes texts from many cultural and national traditions (including Gabriel García Márquez, Kazuo Ishiguro, Arundhati Roy, Jeanette Winterson, Jennifer Egan, Italo Calvino, Flann...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wang, W. Michelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Series:Cognitive approaches to culture.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Roman > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esthétique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Aesthetics in literature
Fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Play (I): Formal (dis)order, sensory chaos ; A visit from the Goon Squad ; The castle of crossed destinies
  • Play (II): Postmodern play with possible worlds ; At Swim-Two-Birds ; Lanark: a life in 4 books
  • Literary sublime (I): Imagination reigns ; The third policeman ; Invisible cities
  • Literary sublime (II): Imaginative engagements of our moralistic ninds ; The God of small things ; Blood meridian
  • Muted beauty: Complex harmonies ; Written on the body ; Never let me go
  • Coda: Between borders ; One hundred years of solitude.

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