| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Genre at the End of Postmodernism; 1 Aliens in America; 2 The Digital Intensification of Postmodern Poetics; 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; 4 Self-Parody and the Aesthetics of Literary Transgression in John Hawkes's An Irish Eye and Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice; 5 Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction; II: Between High and Low, Literary and Popular; 6 Techno-Anxiety as New Middlebrow |
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7 Post-Apocalypse Now8 Ghostly Presences; 9 Postmodern Autonomy and the Poetics of Genre in Matt Ruff's Novels; 10 Purposing the Familiar; III: Revisiting Traditional Genre(s); 11 The Heirs of Don Quixote; 12 Reimagining Genre in the Contemporary Immigrant Novel; 13 Looking Beneath the Surface; 14 Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture in Dave Eggers's Literature; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors |
| Summary |
The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel studies the importance, the uses, and the changes in the work of genre in the contemporary novel. By looking at both the current interest in popular genres in literary writing, as well as at the currently ongoing changes to traditional genres, this book develops a broader perspective that suggests the value of genre criticism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Fiction genres.
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Literary form.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Fiction genres
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Literary form
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lanzendörfer, Tim, editor
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| LC no. |
2021677794 |
| ISBN |
9781498517294 |
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1498517293 |
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9781498517294 |
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