The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon

Brian Stonehill

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1989

The Self-Conscious Novel

Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon

Brian Stonehill

In the series Anniversary Collection

In the series Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807325

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About this book

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author / Editor information

Brian Stonehill (1953-1997) was Professor of English and founder of the media studies program at Pomona College. He served as a senior fiction judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes from 1992 through 1994.

Reviews

"A wonderfully penetrating examination"—Saul Bellow

"Stonehill's book is for readers who read and like fiction, even for writers who like fiction, all of whom, if they like good criticism, might well start with The Self-Conscious Novel—literate, informed, and respectful of all readers."—Wright Morris

"This book . . will be welcomed by students seeking to impose some order and definition on the increasingly impenetrable output of the postmodernists now flowing into the literary marketplace. With its sensible analysis and its ordered categories of the characteristics of 'self-conscious' fiction, it provides a guide of sorts through the jungle. . . . The book, in its range and conception, is extremely useful to students of the novel."—Modern Fiction Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface and Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
I. Imitation's Limitations; or, Why Writers Write About Writers Writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. The Repertoire of Reflexivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
III. The Self-Conscious Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
IV. Getting Back at James Joyce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
V. Nabokov's Imitations of Mortality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
VI. Plagiarizing The Recognitions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
VII. Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The Real World Inside Gravity's Rainbow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
VIII. A Trestle of LETTERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
IX. The Criticism of Self-Consciousness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
X. Reflexive Commentary in the Form of a Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition: Reprint 2016
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Other: 4 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: November 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781512807325