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Reverse Tradition - Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel (Hardcover)
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Reverse Tradition - Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel (Hardcover)
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Reverse Tradition invites the reader of postmodern fiction to
travel back to the nineteenth-century novel without pretending to
let go of contemporary anxieties and expectations. What happens to
the reader of Beckett when he or she returns to Melville? Or to the
enthusiast of Toni Morrison who rereads Charlotte Bronte? While
Robert Kiely does not claim that all fictions begin to look alike,
he finds unexpected and illuminating pleasures in examining a
variety of ways in which new texts reflect on old. In this engaging
book, Kiely not only juxtaposes familiar authors in unfamiliar
ways; he proposes a countertradition of intertextuality and a way
to release the genie of postmodernism from the bottleneck of the
late twentieth century. Placing the reader's response at the crux,
he offers arresting new readings by pairing, among others, Jorge
Luis Borges with Mark Twain, and Maxine Hong Kingston with George
Eliot. In the process, he tests and challenges common assumptions
about transparency in nineteenth-century realism and a historical
opacity in early and late postmodernism.
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