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Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction

Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction Philosophy

Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction

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Even after the upheavals wrought by Theory, literary criticism has generally ignored the act and experience of reading itself, proceeding as though something so fundamental to our experience of texts could be taken for granted. Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction draws on deconstruction and the thought of Jacques Derrida to explore the ways in which contemporary fiction engages with reading, its power, the elusive nature of its experience and the failures of understanding inherent in it. Along the way, the book proceeds through close readings of such authors as J.M. Coetzee, David Mitchell, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
210
Release Date:
2013-04-25
Publication Date:
2013-04-25
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
144116409X
ISBN13:
9781441164094
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Weight:
485 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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