Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel /
Hume, Kathryn, 1945-
Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel / Kathryn Hume. - 1 online resource (217 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-193) and index.
The author-reader contract -- The narrative speed in contemporary fiction -- Modalities of complaint -- Conjugations of the grotesque -- Violence -- Attacking the reader's ontological assumptions -- Why read aggressive fictions?
9780801462870
Aggressiveness in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic books.
PS374.A38 / H86 2012
813/.5409
Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel / Kathryn Hume. - 1 online resource (217 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-193) and index.
The author-reader contract -- The narrative speed in contemporary fiction -- Modalities of complaint -- Conjugations of the grotesque -- Violence -- Attacking the reader's ontological assumptions -- Why read aggressive fictions?
9780801462870
Aggressiveness in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic books.
PS374.A38 / H86 2012
813/.5409