The Quiet Contemporary American Novel
What does it mean to describe a novel as 'quiet'? The quiet contemporary American novel defines the term as an aesthetic of narrative that is driven by reflective principles. While, at first appearance, 'quiet' seems a contradictory description of any literary form, because it risks suggesting that the novelist has nothing to say, this book argues that the quiet of the novel is better conceived as a mode of conversation that occurs at a reduced volume than as the failure to speak. The quiet contemporary American novel makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions and argues that from Hester Prynn…
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Weitere Autoren: Monteith, Sharon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-0887-6
- EAN: 9781526108876
- Produktnummer: 23396267
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 426 g
- Gewicht: 426
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Rachel Sykes is Lecturer in Contemporary American Literature at the University of Birmingham
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