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082 0 4 _a813.509
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSaltzman, Arthur M.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDesigns of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction /
_cArthur M. Saltzman.
250 _aReprint 2016
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©1990
300 _a1 online resource (158 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aPenn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. Introduction: A De-Meaning Poetics --
_t2. Epiphany and Its Discontents --
_t3. Deregulating Histories --
_t4. De(in)forming the Plot --
_t5. Opacity, Resistance, and the Uncommunicative Text --
_t6. The End of Value? --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tBackmatter
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis study examines some of the ways in which fiction has traditionally conspired to promote a goal-oriented vision of a work of art and explores the ways in which postmodern (or postrealist) fiction consistently and unavoidably subverts the clarity of this vision. Offering readings of works by well-known authors, including Barthelme, Doctorow, DeLillo and Hawkes, as well as works by lesser-known writers (Auster, Gangemi), Arthur M. Saltzman concentrates on the breakdown of epiphany in recent fiction, both as philosophical motive and structural foundation. In contemporary fiction, Saltzman contends, ambiguities blossom far beyond our capacities to stabilize, summarize or restore them to sense. The old rules of the game--in which a reader looking for Truth can expect some sort of satisfactory resolution--no longer apply.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aLight and darkness in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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