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Author Edwards, Brian, 1942 March 7-

Title Theories of play and postmodern fiction / Brian Edwards
Published New York : Garland Pub., 1998

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Description xvii, 310 pages ; 23 cm
Series Comparative literature and cultural studies ; v. 3
Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2068.. Comparative literature and cultural studies ; v. 3
Garland reference library of the humanities. Comparative literature and cultural studies ; v. 3
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2068
Contents Pt. I. Grasshopper Antics: The Playhouse of Language. Ch. 1. Foreplay. Ch. 2. Play: The Reader as Trickster. Ch. 3. Reader Response: The Reader as Chameleon. Ch. 4. Deconstruction: The Reader as Scheherazade -- Pt. II. Duplicity as Virtue: Playful Texts and Textualised Players. Ch. 1. The Play in Postmodernism. Ch. 2. Narcissus at the Edge: The Endlessly Diddling Play of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Ch. 3. Letters to Literature: The Epistolary Artfulness of John Barth's LETTERS. Ch. 4. Strategies of Influence: Intertextual Infiltration in Robert Kroetsch's What the Crow Said. Ch. 5. Revisioning the Carnivalesque: The Cultural Combinations of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. Ch. 6. Deceptive Constructions: The Art of Building in Peter Carey's Illywhacker
Notes Bibliography: p277-300. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-300) and index
Subject Carnival in literature.
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Play in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
LC no. 97040346
ISBN 0815328478 (alk. paper)