The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel

Herausgeber: Lanzendörfer, Tim

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Produktbeschreibung

The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel investigates the role of genre in the contemporary novel: taking its departure from the observation that numerous contemporary novelists make use of popular genre influences in what are still widely considered to be literary novels, it sketches the uses, the work, and the value of genre. It suggests the value of a critical look at texts' genre use for an analysis of the contemporary moment. From this, it develops a broader perspective, suggesting the value of genre criticism and taking into view traditional genres such as the bildungsroman and the metafictional novel as well as the kinds of amalgamated forms which have recently come to prominence. In essays discussing a wide range of authors from Steven Hall to Bret Easton Ellis to Colson Whitehead, the contributors to the volume develop their own readings of genre's work and valence in the contemporary novel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781498517287
• ISBN-10: 1498517285
• Artikelnr.: 43750314

Autorenporträt

Tim Lanzendörfer is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Mainz.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Generic Turn? Toward a Poetics of Genre
in the Contemporary Novel. Part One. Genre at the End of Postmodernism 1
Aliens in America: Toni Morrison, Steven Spielberg, and the Ends of
Postmodernism Philipp Löffler 2 The Digital Intensification of Postmodern
Poetics Lai-Tze Fan 3 The Black Box of Genre in Colson Whitehead's The
Intuitionist and Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional
Universe Stephen Hock 4 Self-Parody and the Aesthetics of Literary
Transgression in John Hawkes's An Irish Eye and Thomas Pynchon's Inherent
Vice Salwa Karoui-Elounelli 5 Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses
on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction: The Case of Dave Eggers's You Shall
Know Our Velocity Virginia Pignagnoli Part Two. High and Low, Literary and
Popular 6 Techno-Anxiety and the Middlebrow: Science-Fictionalization in
the Fictional Mainstream of the Early Twenty-First Century Roger Bellin 7
Post-Apocalypse Now-Cormac McCarthy's The Road as Post-Apocalyptic Science
Fiction Yonatan Englender and Elana Gomel 8 Ghostly Presences: Nostalgia,
the Literary Market, and the Cultural Work of Genre in Stephen King's
Joyland Clemens Spahr 9 Postmodern Autonomy and the Poetics of Genre in
Matt Ruff's Novels Annette Schimmelpfennig and Tim Lanzendörfer 10
Purposing the Familiar: Genre, Repetition, and Anxiety in Breat Easton
Ellis's Lunar Park Gavin F. Hurley Part Three. Revisiting Traditional
Genre(s) 11 The Heirs of Don Quixote: Representations of the World-Shaping
Powers of Genre in Contemporary Fiction Martina Allen 12 Reimagining Genre
in the Contemporary Immigrant Novel. Katie Daily-Bruckner 13 Looking
Beneath the Surface: Self and Genre in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland Tim De
Jong 14 Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture
in Dave Eggers's Literature Robert Mousseau Bibliography About the
Contributors Index