Edinburgh University Press
The Midcentury Minor Novel : American Fiction, 1945-1965
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9781399526869
ISBN13:
9781399526869
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$134.08
[headline]Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined the novel as a minor form, defined by its constraints rather than its possibilities. Reflecting a broadly held view among critics that midcentury fiction was in crisis or decline, these 'minor writers' sought to make a virtue of what were taken to be the novel's bleak prospects, crafting fictions of modest proportions and seemingly attenuated ambition that reflexively explored their own aesthetic limitations. Ironically, Kalisch argues, midcentury anxieties about the 'death of the novel' breathed new life into it. Blending literary criticism and intellectual history, this book offers close readings of five writers, Eleanor Clark, Lionel Trilling, Jean Stafford, Richard Stern and John Williams, who shared this curious project for the novel, an account of which adds texture to our understanding of the aesthetic diversity of midcentury American literature. [bio]Michael Kalisch is Lecturer in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American Literature at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction (2021) and editor of Benjamin Markovits: Critical Essays (2024).
| Author: Michael Kalisch |
| Publisher: Edinburgh University Press |
| Publication Date: Aug 31, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 1399526863 |
| ISBN-13: 9781399526869 |
The Midcentury Minor Novel : American Fiction, 1945-1965
$134.08
[headline]Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined the novel as a minor form, defined by its constraints rather than its possibilities. Reflecting a broadly held view among critics that midcentury fiction was in crisis or decline, these 'minor writers' sought to make a virtue of what were taken to be the novel's bleak prospects, crafting fictions of modest proportions and seemingly attenuated ambition that reflexively explored their own aesthetic limitations. Ironically, Kalisch argues, midcentury anxieties about the 'death of the novel' breathed new life into it. Blending literary criticism and intellectual history, this book offers close readings of five writers, Eleanor Clark, Lionel Trilling, Jean Stafford, Richard Stern and John Williams, who shared this curious project for the novel, an account of which adds texture to our understanding of the aesthetic diversity of midcentury American literature. [bio]Michael Kalisch is Lecturer in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American Literature at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction (2021) and editor of Benjamin Markovits: Critical Essays (2024).
| Author: Michael Kalisch |
| Publisher: Edinburgh University Press |
| Publication Date: Aug 31, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 1399526863 |
| ISBN-13: 9781399526869 |
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