The unresolvable plot : reading contemporary fiction

Dipple, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0415006619 / ISBN 13: 9780415006613

Edité par New York : Routledge, 1988

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Fine cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 274 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index. Contentss; Writing about contemporary fiction. The unresolvable plot -- The structures of solitude: Graham Greene and Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The masters of metafiction. Borges: the old master -- Nabokov's ardors and pale fires -- Calvino, Beckett, and the cosmicomical reader -- Experiment and the problems of meaning. A novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations: Umberto Eco and The Name of the Rose -- Muriel Spark and the art of the exclusive -- Russell Hoban: this place called time -- Continuation and tradition. Iris Murdoch and the fiction of utterance -- Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick's "corona of moral purpose" -- Doris Lessing, ideologue -- Conclusion. Roads not taken. Subjects; Fiction 20th century History and criticism. Fiction ; Stories, plots, etc. Fiction in European languages, 1945- - Critical studies. 1 Kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The unresolvable plot : reading contemporary fiction
• Éditeur: New York : Routledge
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0415006619
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780415006613
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• Poids: 1 kilogramme

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Synopsis

An analysis of the brilliant but ostensibly difficult new experimental writing. Dipple focuses on a number of key texts and there are pieces on Greene, Marquez, Borges, Nabokov, Calvino, Eco, Murdoch and Beckett.