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100 1 $aWalsh, Richard,$d1923-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86824528
245 10 $aNovel arguments :$breading innovative American fiction /$cRichard Walsh.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9506
300 $axiii, 179 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v91
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Idea of Innovative Fiction --$g2.$tHow to Succeed: Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father --$g3.$t"A Man's Story Is His Gris-Gris": Cultural Slavery, Literary Emancipation and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada --$g4.$tNarrative Inscription, History and the Reader in Robert Coover's The Public Burning --$g5.$t"One's Image of Oneself": Structured Identity in Walter Abish's How German Is It --$g6.$tThe Quest for Love and the Writing of Female Desire in Kathy Acker's Don Quixote.
520 $aNovel arguments argues that innovative fiction - by which is meant writing that has been variously labeled postmodern, metafictional, experimental - extends our ways of thinking about the world, and rejects the critical consensus that, under the rubrics of postmodernism and metafiction, homogenizes this fiction as autonomous and self-absorbed. Play, self-consciousness, and immanence - supposed symptoms of innovative fiction's autonomy - are here reconsidered as integral to its means of engagement.
520 8 $aThe book advances a concept of the "argument" of fiction as a construct wedding structure and content into a highly evolved and expressive experimental form. Close readings of five important innovative novels by Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, Robert Coover, Walter Abish, and Kathy Acker show how they articulate matters of substance, social engagement, and ideological currency by virtue of the act of innovation.
520 8 $aWalsh deftly argues for a new understanding of fictional cognition at the theoretical level, and, in an act of great critical creativity, discards altogether the flattening totalities of received postmodern formulations.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687
650 0 $aExperimental fiction$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aFiction$xTechnique.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048065
830 0 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v91.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83705629
852 00 $bglx$hPS374.E95$iW35 1995