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The Self-Conscious Novel : Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon / Brian Stonehill.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stonehill, Brian, Author.
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Joyce, James.
- Pynchon, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pynchon, Thomas.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Illusion in literature.
- Psychological fiction--History and criticism.
- Psychological fiction.
- Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.
- English-speaking countries--Intellectual life--20th century.
- English-speaking countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.) : 4 illus.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- I. Imitation's Limitations; or, Why Writers Write About Writers Writing
- II. The Repertoire of Reflexivity
- III. The Self-Conscious Tradition
- IV. Getting Back at James Joyce
- V. Nabokov's Imitations of Mortality
- VI. Plagiarizing The Recognitions
- VII. Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The Real World Inside Gravity's Rainbow
- VIII. A Trestle of LETTERS
- IX. The Criticism of Self-Consciousness
- X. Reflexive Commentary in the Form of a Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512807325
- 151280732X
- OCLC:
- 979882521
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