Children of silence : on contemporary fiction
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Children of silence : on contemporary fiction
Columbia University Press, c1998
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-230) and index
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Description
An engaging series of reflections on the literary landscape of our time-from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King-Wood explores such issues as the shift of interest from novel to story, the blurring of the line between fiction and criticism, the persistence of the notion of paradise, the lure of horror, and the tendency of fiction both to reflect and to resist contemporary history. Wood casts his net wide: a brilliant dissection of Beckett's prose comedy is followed by an absorbing sequence of essays on Kundera, Calvino and Garcia Marquez. Chapters on Toni Morrison and on Angela Carter lead us to chapters on Kazuo Ishiguro and Jeanette Winterson.
Table of Contents
Introduction Maps of Fiction The Kindness of Novels (Ronald Barthes) The Comedy of Ignorance (Samuel Beckett) Politics in Paradise (Julio Cortazar, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas) The Motive for Metaphor (Milan Kundera) The Promised Land (Italo Calvino) Other Times A Postmodernist Romance (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) The Mind Has Mountains (Toni Morrison) Tigers and Mirrors (Angela Carter) All the rage (Stephen King) Stories and Silences Lost Paradises (Edward Said) The Discourse of Others (Kazuo Ishiguro) The Nightmare of Narrative (Jeanette Winterson)
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