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An analysis of the brilliant but ostensibly difficult new experimental writing. Dipple focuses on a number of key texts and there are pieces on Greene, Marquez, Borges, Nabokov, Calvino, Eco, Murdoch and Beckett.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0415006619
- ISBN 13 9780415006613
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages274
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk 274pp an unread copy excellent in dj in protective sleeve as new this is an original printing of this edition and is in stock for immediate dispatch. Seller Inventory # LC590
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The unresolvable plot : reading contemporary fiction
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ISBN 10: 0415006619
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 274 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index. Contentss; Writing about contemporary fiction. The unresolvable plot -- The structures of solitude: Graham Greene and Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The masters of metafiction. Borges: the old master -- Nabokov's ardors and pale fires -- Calvino, Beckett, and the cosmicomical reader -- Experiment and the problems of meaning. A novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations: Umberto Eco and The Name of the Rose -- Muriel Spark and the art of the exclusive -- Russell Hoban: this place called time -- Continuation and tradition. Iris Murdoch and the fiction of utterance -- Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick's "corona of moral purpose" -- Doris Lessing, ideologue -- Conclusion. Roads not taken. Subjects; Fiction 20th century History and criticism. Fiction ; Stories, plots, etc. Fiction in European languages, 1945- - Critical studies. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 419589
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The unresolvable plot : reading contemporary fiction
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ISBN 10: 0415006619
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 274 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index. Contentss; Writing about contemporary fiction. The unresolvable plot -- The structures of solitude: Graham Greene and Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The masters of metafiction. Borges: the old master -- Nabokov's ardors and pale fires -- Calvino, Beckett, and the cosmicomical reader -- Experiment and the problems of meaning. A novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations: Umberto Eco and The Name of the Rose -- Muriel Spark and the art of the exclusive -- Russell Hoban: this place called time -- Continuation and tradition. Iris Murdoch and the fiction of utterance -- Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick's "corona of moral purpose" -- Doris Lessing, ideologue -- Conclusion. Roads not taken. Subjects; Fiction 20th century History and criticism. Fiction ; Stories, plots, etc. Fiction in European languages, 1945- - Critical studies. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 419589
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