Ben Masters

Novel Style

Ethics and Excess in English Fiction Since the 1960s

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Produktbeschreibung

Marrying lyrical close reading with critical awareness, Novel Style argues for the ethical value of elaborate styles of writing and demonstrates that artistic excessiveness can provide dynamic responses to the moral complexities of our times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780198766148
• ISBN-10: 0198766149
• Artikelnr.: 48957611

Autorenporträt

Ben Masters is a novelist, critic, and Assistant Professor in English Literature, 1880 to the present, at the University of Nottingham. His first novel, Noughties, was published in 2012, and he has written for The Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, New York Times, and Five Dials, amongst other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Higher Morality: Anthony Burgess and 'The Business of Moral
Choice'
* 2: Ifs, Buts, and Maybes: Angela Carter's Grammar of Curiosity
* 3: The King in his Countinghouse': Martin Amis and the Decorum of
Excess
* 4: Twenty-First-Century Excess: Levels of Narration in Contemporary
Fiction
* Coda