Ideas of Order: Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3825360814 ISBN 13 : 9783825360818

Editeur : Universitatsverlag Winter, 2013

Synopsis

Investigating the distinct poetics of Richard Powers' writing, this volume demonstrates that the author's complex body of fictional work warrants much more focused and systematic critical attention than it has received so far. The essays explore how Powers' work oscillates between the poles of realism and metafictional postmodernism, creating narratives in which the conventions of realism are both deployed and undermined, in which characters are simultaneously presented as motivated agents and as textual constructs. By conceptualizing Powers' novels as texts in which order is both a central and a consciously fictional idea, the essays collected in this volume discuss how Powers' densely structured fictions indicate the potential of a concrete relation between life and literature that manifests itself in an inherently narrative vision of human consciousness.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3825360814
• ISBN 13: 9783825360818
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Éditeur: Kley Antje, Kucharzewski Jan D
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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