Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel / Kathryn Hume.

By: Hume, Kathryn, 1945-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780801462870Subject(s): Aggressiveness in literature | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel.DDC classification: 813/.5409 LOC classification: PS374.A38 | H86 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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?
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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?

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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