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Author Stonehill, Brian

Title The Self-Conscious Novel : Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon / Brian Stonehill
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource : 4 illustrations
Series Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- I. Imitation's Limitations; or, Why Writers Write About Writers Writing -- II. The Repertoire of Reflexivity -- III. The Self-Conscious Tradition -- IV. Getting Back at James Joyce -- V. Nabokov's Imitations of Mortality -- VI. Plagiarizing The Recognitions -- VII. Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The Real World Inside Gravity's Rainbow -- VIII. A Trestle of LETTERS -- IX. The Criticism of Self-Consciousness -- X. Reflexive Commentary in the Form of a Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
Pynchon, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Joyce, James, 1882-1941 fast
Pynchon, Thomas fast
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Psychological fiction -- History and criticism
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.
Illusion in literature.
Fiction -- Technique.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American fiction
English fiction
Fiction -- Technique
Illusion in literature
Intellectual life
Psychological fiction
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
SUBJECT English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject English-speaking countries
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512807325
151280732X