The Self-Apparent Word Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Self-Apparent Word Book

“The novel is dead” was the cry of the 1960s, and so it was as an authoritative report concerning the world; but from that death, Klinkowitz argues, arose a form of writing that celebrates the crea­tive process, a narrative that is not about something but is something. Klinkowitz first characterizes the “modern” fiction of the earlier 20th cen­tury wherein the word fades into the background because the story line forms the essence of the fiction. Thus the word is “self-effacing.” Postmodern fiction, on the other hand, features the word. Words in postmodern fiction are opaque, not transparent. Of necessity we notice the word and must look closely at it; thus the word becomes “self-apparent.”Read More

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  • 080931164X
  • 9780809311644
  • Jerome Klinkowitz
  • 15 June 2006
  • Southern Illinois University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 168
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