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Author O'Donnell, Patrick, 1948-

Title Passionate doubts : designs of interpretation in contemporary American fiction / Patrick O'Donnell
Edition 1st ed
Published Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1986

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Description 1 online resource (32, 181 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Fiction and Interpretation, a Dialogue; One: Nabokov's Watermark: Writing the Self in Pale Fire; Two: Self-Alignment: John Hawkes' Travesty; Three: Self, Narrative, History: The System of John Barth's 'Letter'; Four: "A Book of Traces": Gravity's Rainbow; Five: The World Dactylic: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood; Six: The Wor(l)d Made Elesh: Stanley Elkin's The Franchiser; Seven: Entanglement: The Reader in Contemporary Fiction; Notes; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-177) and index
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Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism
Reader-response criticism.
Semiotics and literature.
Self in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction
Psychological fiction, American
Reader-response criticism
Self in literature
Semiotics and literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1587291711
9781587291715