The Postmodernist novel has become famous for the extremes of its narcissistic involvement with language. In this challenging and wide-ranging new study, Andre Brink argues that this self-consciousness has been a characteristic of the novel since its earliest stirrings. More specifically, every novel appears both to construct, and to be constructed by, its own notion of language, elaborated through all the strategies of narrative. Taking as his starting point 'the propensity for story' embedded in language he offers ...
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The Postmodernist novel has become famous for the extremes of its narcissistic involvement with language. In this challenging and wide-ranging new study, Andre Brink argues that this self-consciousness has been a characteristic of the novel since its earliest stirrings. More specifically, every novel appears both to construct, and to be constructed by, its own notion of language, elaborated through all the strategies of narrative. Taking as his starting point 'the propensity for story' embedded in language he offers stimulating new readings of novels from Cervantes to Calvino, demonstrating that in many respects the old familiar texts may be more startingly modern, and the Postmodernist texts more firmly rooted in convention, than we tend to think.
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Near Fine + No DJ Issued. Book Uncorrected Proofs. The South-African novelist and professor traces a sweeping analysis of 500-year history of the novel, from Don Quiote, thorugh classic works of the 18th and 19th centuries and modern and post-modern texts of the 20th century. The author's central arugument is that self-consciousness has been a characteristic of the novel since its earliest stirrings. 369 pages with notes and references. Blue printed card covers. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Slight corner wear. Uncorrected Page Proof. Uncommon. Interestingly, the back cover lists the ISDN as 0813713300 and the inside ISDN as 0814713300.
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