Nick Levey

Maximalism in Contemporary American Literature

The Uses of Detail

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Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the maximalist novels of Wallace, Baker, Pynchon, and others, considering how overly-detailed writing serves the institutional, emotional, and intellectual needs of contemporary readers and writers. It argues that maximalist novels not only exceed perceived limits of style, subject matter, and scope, but strive to remake the us

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780367878504
• ISBN-10: 036787850X
• Artikelnr.: 58482517

Autorenporträt

Nick Levey teaches in the English Department at La Trobe University, Australia. He publishes on contemporary fiction and is currently writing about post-press literature and the rise of digital self-publishing.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Giants and Junk: Power-Reading Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
2. On Flunking: Maximalist Description in David Foster Wallace's Infinite
Jest 94
3. Data-Sickle: Maximalism and White-Collar Aesthetics in David Foster
Wallace's The Pale King
4. Just Maximalist Things: Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine and Objects of
Curiosity
5. Housebound: Domestic Excess in Nicholson Baker's Room Temperature
6. Mindless Pleasures: Playlists, Unemployment, and Thomas Pynchon's
Inherent Vice
Conclusion: Overflow: The Margins of American Maximalism