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Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture / by J. Karnicky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karnicky, Jeffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- America--Literatures.
- America.
- Communication.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- North American Literature.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- North American Literature.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh, this book looks at how these works seek to transform the ways that readers live in the world.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Assembling an Ethics of Reading; 1 Between Reading and Writing: Susan Daitch, David Markson, and "Bartleby""; 2 Fascinated Disgust in Richard Powers; 3 Kinds of Stasis in David Foster Wallace; 4 Silence Junkies: Irvine Welsh's Novel Subjectivities; Conclusion: The Demand of Bartleby; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611362799
- 9781281362797
- 1281362794
- 9780230603592
- 0230603599
- OCLC:
- 314793962
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