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Novel Arguments - Reading Innovative American Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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Novel Arguments - Reading Innovative American Fiction (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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Novel Arguments argues that innovative fiction - by which is meant
writing that has been variously labelled as postmodern,
metafictional, experimental - extends our ways of thinking about
the world, rejecting the critical consensus that, under the rubrics
of postmodernism and metafiction, homogenises this fiction as
autonomous and self-absorbed. Play, self-consciousness and
immanence - supposed symptoms of innovative fiction's autonomy -
are here reconsidered as integral to its means of engagement. The
1995 book advances a concept of the 'argument' of fiction as a
construct wedding structure and content into a highly evolved and
expressive form. The argument, not the content, is established as
the site of a fiction's 'aboutness' and thus the usual emphasis
upon the generalities of innovative form is replaced by a concern
for the logic of specific literary effects. Walsh deftly argues for
an understanding of fictional cognition at the theoretical level
and in an act of unmatched critical creativity, discards altogether
the flattening totalities of received postmodern formulations.
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