10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTINOVEL»
Discover the use of
antinovel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
antinovel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Catch-22: antiheroic
antinovel
Describes the background of Catch-22, discusses its themes, and looks at its critical reception
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The Door Opens: An
Antinovel
The great American novel is a lie and clichA(c)s are a dime a dozen. So what happens when you take one of the oldest clichA(c)s known to the modern world and explore it with sharp and witty prose? You get The Door Opens.
3
Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in ...
While the increased currency of novels within print-media culture intensifies the
antinovel discourse, the novels of Manley and Haywood are not overwhelmed by
that discourse; neither does the success of Manley and Haywood's novels ...
William Beatty Warner, 1998
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Digression: A Narrative Strategy in the Italian Novel
Because of their disruptive and playful effects (the most evident of which are the
fragmentation of the plot and the self-conscious reflection) digressions are
usually considered a characteristic feature of the antinovel tradition. This kind of
fiction ...
Most of the "reviews" target the postmodern infatuation with antinarratives by lampooning their self-indulgence and exploiting their mannerisms.
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Heartless Bastard In Ecstasy
“I thought it was an antinovel.” “All right, the secret of this antinovel. You and I are
characters in an antinovel and the author wishes he could use a tool other than
words to write the book. He told me he wants to use beetles, mud, bolts, speakers
...
7
The Comic Diderot: A Reading of the Fictions
Diderot's narrator has yet to acquire the easy confidence of Jacques le fataliste,
his most significant contribution to the genre of the antinovel. The comic scenes
of Les Bijoux indiscrets are forced and wooden when contrasted with the more ...
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Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge: Reflections on the Strategy ...
(3) Commitment to ideas or conditions external to the antinovel should be
renounced in favor of complete commitment to the writing itself. (4) Form and
content are irrelevant. The notion that a writer has something to say and knows
how to say ...
Julius Thomas Fraser, 1990
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Faulkner Studies in Japan
vented by men, and it might be possible to repudiate the make- believe in this
realism by means of the antinovel, but the mere repudiation of make-believe is
not enough to provide a way out. The true repudiation of make-believe must ...
Thomas L. McHaney, Kenzaburo Ohashi, Kiyoyuki Ono, 2008
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Resisting Alienation: The Literary Work of Enrique Lihn
But the antinovel also presents the notion, as studied in the theories of George
Yudice and Nestor Garcia Canclini, that a fragmented work reflects the
disordered nature of a heterogeneous hybrid culture in Latin America. While we
referred to ...
Christopher Michael Travis, 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTINOVEL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
antinovel is used in the context of the following news items.
How the Seattle Seahawks Beat the San Francisco 49ers, Part One
... re-wrote a book. It is called 100 Things Seahawks Fan Should Know & Do Before They Die. As a post- post-modern antinovel, it is mediocre. «Field Gulls, Nov 14»
When Novels Were Bad For You
But like Flaubert, Austen wasn't wholly antinovel, as some of Catherine's instincts turn out to be right: “Austen is kind of satirizing excesses of ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
A Book Worth Saving?
If this is the novel's natural tempo, give me the “antinovel” any day. One critic who saw the manuscript in the 1970s called it a “pile of iniquity”; ... «Daily Beast, Sep 13»
Literary giant Herman Wouk takes on Moses
"It's an antinovel," Wouk said. "I'm not telling a story, I'm using every possible way to avoid a straight narrative voice." "The Lawgiver" is an ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Nov 12»
Fictional Antinovel Introduces Evil Genius as the Protagonist
When does a character fall under the “evil genius” category? Victor Steingardt is the prototypical evil genius, (although admittedly not much), ... «PR Web, May 12»
The Naked Truth
(I say this as an avid admirer of the thrilling clarity of his later memoir, Chronicles: Part One.) Or maybe antinovel is the better term for Tarantula. «Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr 12»
The Amazon eBook Daily Deal is 'Empire of Dreams' by Giannina …
An antinovel within the book satirizes the writer's role in the modern age and calls for a revolution of poetry. New York City becomes the site of ... «Examiner.com, Nov 11»
The Language of Exile
Kundera is not in favor, however, of the modern antinovel, “with no characters, no plot, no story, if possible no punctuation.” But he is in favor, ... «New York Times, Aug 10»
Reality Hunger, A Manifesto: The traditional novel is dead; long live …
... without some element of self-reflexivity feels to me falsely monumental. 327. The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps. «Toronto Star, Mar 10»
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields: review
Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.” He takes digs at Hamlet – “a tired old plot” – and, by extension, Shakespeare: “only the suspect artist ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 10»
