TY - BOOK AU - Hume,Kathryn TI - Aggressive fictions: reading the contemporary American novel AV - PS374.A38 H86 2012 U1 - 813/.5409 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Aggressiveness in literature KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - Electronic books N1 - 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? UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3138557 ER -