Reading theories in contemporary fiction / Lisa McNally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNally, Lisa, 1986- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading.

Criticism.

Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Even after the upheavals wrought by Theory, literary criticism has generally ignored the act and experience of reading itself, proceeding as though something so fundamental to our experience of texts could be taken for granted. Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction draws on deconstruction and the thought of Jacques Derrida to explore the ways in which contemporary fiction engages with reading, its power, the elusive nature of its experience and the failures of understanding inherent in it. Along the way, the book proceeds through close readings of such authors as J.M. Coetzee, David Mitchell, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: Telling Truths about Reading

1. Composition

2. Traces

3. Deconstruction and Ethics

4. Tact

5. You

Coda: Desire

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441190260

1441190260

9781472543820

1472543823

9781441109545

1441109544

OCLC:

846492931