TY - BOOK AU - Stonehill,Brian TI - The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon T2 - Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction SN - 9780812280982 PY - 2016///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Cultural Studies KW - Literature N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; I. Imitation's Limitations; or, Why Writers Write About Writers Writing --; II. The Repertoire of Reflexivity --; III. The Self-Conscious Tradition --; IV. Getting Back at James Joyce --; V. Nabokov's Imitations of Mortality --; VI. Plagiarizing The Recognitions --; VII. Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The Real World Inside Gravity's Rainbow --; VIII. A Trestle of LETTERS --; IX. The Criticism of Self-Consciousness --; X. Reflexive Commentary in the Form of a Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807325 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512807325 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512807325/original ER -