Description: Maximalist Novel : From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666, Paperback by Ercolino, Stefano; Sbragia, Albert (TRN), ISBN 1501314297, ISBN-13 9781501314292, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
The Maximalist Novel sets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed in the United States from the early 1970s, and then gained popularity in Europe in the early twenty-first century.
The maximalist novel has a very strong symbolic and morphological identity. Ercolino sets out ten particular elements which define and structure it as a complex literary form: length, an encyclopedic mode, dissonant chorality, diegetic exuberance, completeness, narrratorial omniscience, paranoid imagination, inter-semiocity, ethical commitment, and hybrid realism. These ten characteristics are common to all of the seven works that centre his discussion: Gravitys Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Underworld by Don DeLillo, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, 2666 by Roberto Bolao, and 2005 dopo Cristo by the Babette Factory.
Though the ten features are not all present in the same way or form in every single text, they are all decisive in defining the genre of the maximalist novel, insofar as they are systematically co-present. Taken singularly, they can be easily found both in modernist and postmodern novels, which are not maximalist. Nevertheless, it is precisely their co-presence, as well as their reciprocal articulation, which make them fundamental in demarcating the maximalist novel as a genre.
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Book Title: Maximalist Novel : From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Rob
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Maximalist Novel : from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.4 in
Subject: Style Manuals, General, American / General
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Stefano Ercolino
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
