Cruft of Fiction - Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention

Informationen zum Autor David Letzler is an independent scholar. His essays have been published in Contemporary Literature, Studies in the Novel, the Wallace Stevens Journal, and the African American Review. Klappentext David Letzler is an independent scholar. His essays have been published in Contemporary Literature, Studies in the Novel, the Wallace Stevens Journal, and the African American Review. Zusammenfassung Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--City University of New York! 2014. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Information and Attention in the Mega-Novel 1. The Dictionary 2. The Encyclopedia 3. Life-Writing 4. The Menippean Satire 5. Episodic Narrative 6. The Epic and the Allegory Conclusion: The Fate of the Mega-Novel Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: David Letzler
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780803299627
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9962-7
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Frontiers of Narrative; Frontiers of Narrative
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century