The Unresolvable Plot: Reading Contemporary Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367339845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 282 str.

Elizabeth Dipple

Opis

First published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. Each chapter begins with a brief explanation of the context in which each fictionist is to be examined, the author then concentrates on an analysis of key texts, aiming always to look beyond jargon and theory.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Part 1: Writing about Contemporary Fiction  1. The Unresolvable Plot  2. The Structures of Solitude: Graham Greene and Gabriel Garcia Márquez  Part 2: The Masters of Metafiction  3. Borges: The Old Master  4. Nabakov’s Ardors and Pale Fires  5. Calvino, Beckett, and the Cosmicomical Reader  Part 3: Experiment and the Problems of Meaning  6. A Novel, which is a Machine for Generating Interpretations: Umberto Eco and The Name of the Rose  7. Muriel Spark and the Art of the Exclusive  8. Russell Hoban: This Place Called Time  Part 4: Continuation and Tradition  9. Iris Murdoch and the Fiction of Utterance  10. Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick’s "Corona of Moral Purpose"  11. Doris Lessing, ideologue  Conclusion  12. Roads Not Taken.  Critical Bibliography.  Name Index.

O autorze

Elizabeth Dipple