Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Maximalist NovelCondition: NewSubtitle: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666ISBN-10: 1501314297EAN: 9781501314292ISBN: 9781501314292Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/22/2015Description: 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: Gravity's 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 Bolaño, 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 286gAuthor: Stefano ErcolinoGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Maximalist Novel
Title: The Maximalist Novel
Subtitle: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666
ISBN-10: 1501314297
EAN: 9781501314292
ISBN: 9781501314292
Release Date: 10/22/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Maximalist Novel : from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Style Manuals, General, American / General
Item Height: 0.4 in
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Stefano Ercolino
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
