Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel /

Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hume, Kathryn, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Aggressiveness in literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Aversion in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The author-reader contract
  • The narrative speed in contemporary fiction
  • Modalities of complaint
  • Conjugations of the grotesque
  • Violence
  • Attacking the reader's ontological assumptions
  • Why read aggressive fictions?