World-Games - Couverture souple

Nash, Cristopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 103284132X ISBN 13 : 9781032841328

Editeur : Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

Contemporary readers face a literature that seems to ‘speak for’ them, yet they often struggle to say just how or why. Out of the deluge of works from such writers as Barth, Barthelme, Beckett, Borges, Brooke-Rose, Burroughs, Butor, Calvino, Cortázar, Federman, Fuentes, Le Guin, Márquez, McElroy, Nabokov, O’Brien, Pynchon, Robbe-Grillet, Sanguineti, Sarraute, Sollers, Sukenick, Tolkien, Vonnegut, new words and world-models that demand understanding fill the air. Yet they seem frequently beyond reach because the framework of ideas within which this often brilliant but seemingly bewilderingly disparate flood of discourses might make sense remains largely unexpressed.

Beginning with the first concisely concerted assessment in English of the premisses and practice of Realism as viewed by those who feel that there is no choice but to move on, this book (first published in 1987) confronts the vocabulary and rhetoric of current radical theory with the actual procedures of post-war fiction. In a spirit of challenging experiment, it scrutinizes the themes, motifs, and strategies of contemporary narrative and reveals an unsuspected continuity of hitherto concealed premisses and dilemmas built into recent postmodern and poststructuralist thought. As provocative as the literature it regards, it proposes that anti-Realism is no longer merely a ‘movement’ – that it has become a massive and equally conventionalized and problematical tradition living alongside Realism throughout the Western world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cristopher Nash, BA English, UCLA. MA Romance Languages & Literature & PhD Comparative Literature, New York University. Phi Beta Kappa. Fulbright-Hays Fellow, France, 1965-67. Italian & English Studies (director), Graduate School of Comparative Literature (founder), University of Warwick, 1970-2007. World Postmodern Fiction; Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind; Narrative in Culture: Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy & Literature; The Dinosaurs Ball.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 103284132X
• ISBN 13: 9781032841328
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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