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Author Pearce, Richard, 1932-

Title The novel in motion : an approach to modern fiction / Richard Pearce.

Publication Info. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [1983]
©1983

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 Moore Stacks  PS379 .P36 1983    Available  ---
Description xiv, 155 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Novel in motion -- ch. 1. Toward the novel in motion: movement and the narrative eye -- ch. 2. From realism to modernism: two pictures in Joyce's Portrait -- ch. 3. Reeling through Faulkner -- ch. 4. From Joyce to Beckett: the tale that wags the telling -- ch. 5. Enter the frame: the loss of clarity -- ch. 6. Dislocation in Nabokov's black (hole) humor: Lolita and Pale fire -- ch. 7. Where're they at, where're they going?: Thomas Pynchon and the American novel in motion -- ch. 8. Robert Coover's kaleidoscopic spectacle -- ch. 9. Riding the surf: Raymond Federman, Walter Abish, and Ronald Sukenick -- ch. 10. Bring back that line, bring back that time.
Form Also issued online.
Summary Also includes material on Raymond Federman, Walter Abish, and Ronald Sukenick.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
English-speaking countries.
Intellectual life.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Coover, Robert.
Coover, Robert.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
Pynchon, Thomas.
Pynchon, Thomas.
Other Form: Online version: Pearce, Richard, 1932- Novel in motion. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1983 (OCoLC)561896289
ISBN 0814203450 : $17.50
9780814203453