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Critique-studies in Contemporary Fiction
About: Critique-studies in Contemporary Fiction is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Narrative & Postmodernism. Over the lifetime, 1398 publication(s) have been published receiving 5815 citation(s).
Topics: Narrative, Postmodernism, Reading (process), Trilogy, Literary criticism
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TL;DR: The authors deconstructs the New York Trilogy of Paul Auster's anti-detective fiction and proposes a new anti-Detective novel, The New York trilogy, based on the same authors.
Abstract: (1990). Deconstructing The New York Trilogy: Paul Auster's Anti-Detective Fiction. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 71-84.
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TL;DR: The Prodigious Fiction of Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace as discussed by the authors is a collection of works by Powers, Vollman, and Wallace, published in 1996.
Abstract: (1996). The Prodigious Fiction of Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 12-37.
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of economic rhetoric and especially money in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day is discussed, linking the legitimation crisis of the gold standard at the beginning of the twentieth century to broader questions of representation, value formation, and centralized power.
Abstract: My article “‘There Is Money Everywhere’: Representation, Authority, and the Money Form in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day” deals with the role of economic rhetoric and especially money in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. In the article I will show how Pynchon links the legitimation crisis of the gold standard at the beginning of the twentieth century to broader questions of representation, value formation, and centralized power.
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TL;DR: This article used comic books to challenge some of the most basic tenets of the linguistic turn of twentieth-century critical theory, such as the notion of time, metaphor, and metaphor, as a source of readymade metaphors.
Abstract: Novels written about comic books possess a unique representational potential. Although many of these novels treat comics chiefly as sources of readymade metaphors, authors such as Rick Moody and Michael Chabon have expanded their figural lexicon. As serial narratives, comic books present novelists with a form of metonymic combination that can conflate or arrest time; as visual narratives, they offer the possibility of escaping conventional linguistic signification. The novels that translate these figurative strategies to prose use comics to challenge some of the most basic tenets of the linguistic turn of twentieth-century critical theory.
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