Overview
- Examines the unique differences between and among literary texts
- Approaches the primary texts in a unique way – many of which are rarely written about
- Turns a critical eye to the diversity of fiction writing
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into question the notion of a singular “theory of fiction,” especially in relation to the novel. Unlike Forster’s approach to “Aspects of the Novel,” which implied there is only one kind of novel to which there may be an aspect, this book deconstructs how one approach to studying something as protean as the novel cannot be accomplished. To that end, the text uses Diderot’s This Is Not A Story (1772) and David Markson’s This Is Not A Novel (2016) as a frame and imbedded within are essays on De Maistre’s Voyage Around My Room (1829), Machado de Assis’s Posthumous Memoirs Of Braz Cubas (1881), André Breton’s Nadja (1928) and Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept (1945).
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- Pablo Baler, Professor of Latin American Literature,California State University, Los Angeles, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Untheories of Fiction
Book Subtitle: Literary Essays from Diderot to Markson
Authors: Mark Axelrod-Sokolov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59346-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59345-2Published: 21 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59348-3Published: 21 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59346-9Published: 20 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 155
Topics: Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Critical Theory