Sykes Rachel
Sykes Rachel - The Quiet Contemporary American Novel - Hardcover
Sykes Rachel - The Quiet Contemporary American Novel - Hardcover
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Description: What does it mean to describe a novel as quiet ? The quiet contemporary American noveldefines the term as an aesthetic of narrative that is driven by reflective principles. While at first appearance quiet seems a contradictory description of any literary form because it risks suggesting that the novelist has nothing to say this book argues that the quiet of the novel is better conceived as a mode of conversation that occurs at a reduced volume than as the failure to speak. The quiet contemporary American novel makes two critical interventions. Firstly it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions and argues that from Hester Prynne to Clarissa Dalloway from Bartleby to William Stoner quiet characters fill the novel in the Western tradition. As a phrase the quiet novel also has a long and untraced history dating back 150 years. Throughout its long history many critics have used the quiet novel as a phrase that dismisses and derides the work of writers whose novels seem disengaged from the noise of their wider society. The quiet contemporary American novel finally takes up the long referred to idea of quiet fiction to ask what it means for a novel to be quiet and through discussion of a diverse selection of contemporary writers including Marilynne Robinson Teju Cole and Lynne Tillman asks how we might read for quiet in an American literary tradition that critics so often describe as noisy.
Title: The Quiet Contemporary American Novel
Author(s): Sykes Rachel
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Barcode: 9781526108876
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 11/21/2017
Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: What does it mean to describe a novel as quiet ? The quiet contemporary American noveldefines the term as an aesthetic of narrative that is driven by reflective principles. While at first appearance quiet seems a contradictory description of any literary form because it risks suggesting that the novelist has nothing to say this book argues that the quiet of the novel is better conceived as a mode of conversation that occurs at a reduced volume than as the failure to speak. The quiet contemporary American novel makes two critical interventions. Firstly it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions and argues that from Hester Prynne to Clarissa Dalloway from Bartleby to William Stoner quiet characters fill the novel in the Western tradition. As a phrase the quiet novel also has a long and untraced history dating back 150 years. Throughout its long history many critics have used the quiet novel as a phrase that dismisses and derides the work of writers whose novels seem disengaged from the noise of their wider society. The quiet contemporary American novel finally takes up the long referred to idea of quiet fiction to ask what it means for a novel to be quiet and through discussion of a diverse selection of contemporary writers including Marilynne Robinson Teju Cole and Lynne Tillman asks how we might read for quiet in an American literary tradition that critics so often describe as noisy.
Title: The Quiet Contemporary American Novel
Author(s): Sykes Rachel
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Barcode: 9781526108876
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 11/21/2017
Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
