| Description |
222 pages ; 24 cm |
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[1.] Fabulation and reality Fact, fiction, and fallibilism -- The reality of Borges -- [2.] The nature of romance What good is pure romance? -- The orgastic pattern of fiction -- Lawrence Durrell and the return to Alexandria -- John Fowles as romancer -- [3.] Modern allegory A fable and its gloss -- Iris Murdoch's Unicorn -- John Barth's Goat-boy -- [4.] Metafiction The nature of experimental fiction -- The range of metafiction: Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Gass -- The limits of metafiction: Warhol, Mosley, Sarraute, Brodeur, Merwin, Charyn, Dylan, Federman -- [5.] Comedy and grotesquerie The comedy of extremity -- The making of a comedian -- Vonnegut's Cat's cradle and Mother night -- Black humor in Hawkes and Southern -- John Hawkes's theory of fiction -- The lime twig -- A portrait of the artist as "escape goat": Malamud's Fidelman -- Ishmael's black art -- Epilogue History as fabulation: Malamud and Vonnegut -- Fabulation as history: Barth, García-Marquez, Fowles, Pynchon, Coover -- Imagination dead imagine: reflections on self-reflexive |
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Includes index |
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Also issued online |
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Barth, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Barthelme, Donald -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fowles, John, 1926-2005 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014.
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Hawkes, John, 1925-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Malamud, Bernard -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-
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Murdoch, Iris -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pynchon, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Vonnegut, Kurt -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.
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Experimental fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Technique.
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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| LC no. |
78010776 |
| ISBN |
0252007042 |
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