The self-conscious novel
Subtitle: artifice in fiction from Joyce to Pynchon
By: Brian Stonehill
Series: Penn studies in contemporary American fiction; Penn studies in contemporary American fiction
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780585199955
Copyright date: 1988
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; American fiction; History and criticism; Psychological fiction; Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature; Illusion in literature; Fiction; Technique; English fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM; American; General
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Imitation's limitations; or, Why writers write about writers writing; title: Repertoire of reflexivity; title: Self-conscious tradition; title: Getting back at james Joyce; title: Nabokov's imitations of mortality; title: Plagiarizing The Recognitions; title: Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The real workd inside Gravity's Rainbow; title: Trestle of letters; title: Criticism of self-consciousness; title: Relexive commentary in the form of a conclusion.