Free indirect : the novel in a postfictional age / Timothy Bewes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bewes, Timothy, author.

Series:

Literature Now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls "free indirect," in which the novel's refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. Unthinking Connections

Part I. The Novel Form and Its Limits

1. The Problem of Form

2. Against Exemplarity: W. G. Sebald

Part II. The Emergence of Postfictional Aesthetics

3. The Instantiation Relation

4. The Postfictional Hypothesis

5. The Logic of Disconnection

Interlude. Fictional Discourse as Event: On Jesse Ball

Part III. The Free Indirect

6. How Does Immanence Show Itself?

7. What Is a Sensorimotor Break? Deleuze on Cinema

Interlude. Profiling

8. Rancière: Toward Nonregime Thinking

Conclusion. The Indeterminate Thought of the Free Indirect

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-54947-4

OCLC:

1334889649