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Writing at the Limit - Daniel Punday - Bog - University of Nebraska Press - Plusbog.dk

Writing at the Limit - Daniel Punday - Bog - University of Nebraska Press - Plusbog.dk

While some cultural critics are pronouncing the death of the novel, a whole generation of novelists have turned to other media with curiosity rather than fear. These novelists are not simply incorporating references to other media into their work for the sake of verisimilitude, they are also engaging precisely such media as a way of talking about what it means to write and read narrative in a society filled with stories told outside the print medium. By examining how some of our best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting. He considers well-known postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon and Robert Coover, more-accessible authors like Maxine Hong Kingston and Oscar Hijuelos, and unjustly overlooked writers like Susan Daitch and Kenneth Gangemi, and asks how their works investigate the nature and limits of print as a medium for storytelling. Writing at the Limit explores how novelists locate print writing within the contemporary media ecology, and what it really means to be writing at print’s media limit.

DKK 472.00
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Swallowing a World - Benjamin Bergholtz - Bog - University of Nebraska Press - Plusbog.dk

Swallowing a World - Benjamin Bergholtz - Bog - University of Nebraska Press - Plusbog.dk

Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s typically cast as a (white, male) genre of U.S. fiction, maximalism, Benjamin Bergholtz argues, is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right. Bergholtz considers a selection of massive and meandering novels that crisscross from London and Lusaka to Kingston, Kabul, and Kashmir and that represent, formally reproduce, and ultimately invite reflection on the effects of globalization. Each chapter takes up a maximalist novel that simultaneously maps and formally mimics a cornerstone of globalization, such as the postcolonial culture industry (Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children ), the rebirth of fundamentalism (Zadie Smith’s White Teeth ), the transnational commodification of violence (Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings ), the obstruction of knowledge by narrative (Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know ), and globalization’s gendered, asymmetrical growth (Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift ). By reframing analysis of maximalism around globalization, Swallowing a World not only reimagines one of the most perplexing genres of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries but also sheds light on some of the most perplexing political problems of our precarious present.

DKK 470.00
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