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100 1  Hume, Kathryn,|d1945-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n84114491 
245 10 Aggressive fictions :|breading the contemporary American 
       novel /|cKathryn Hume. 
264  1 Ithaca :|bCornell University Press,|c2012. 
300    1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and 
       index. 
505 0  The author-reader contract -- Narrative speed in 
       contemporary fiction -- Modalities of complaint -- 
       Conjugations of the grotesque -- Violence -- Attacking the
       reader's ontological assumptions -- Why read aggressive 
       fictions? 
520    A frequent complaint about contemporary American fiction 
       is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find 
       difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's 
       American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don 
       DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or
       annoy their readers--or to disorient them by shunning 
       traditional plot patterns and character development. 
       Kathryn Hume calls such works "aggressive fictions." Why 
       would authors risk alienating their readers--and why 
       should readers persevere? Looking beyond the theory-based 
       justifications that critics often provide for such fiction,
       Hume offers a commonsense guide for the average reader who
       wants to better understand and appreciate books that might
       otherwise seem difficult to enjoy. In her reliable and 
       sympathetic guide, Hume considers roughly forty works of 
       recent American fiction, including books by William 
       Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Chuck Palahniuk, and Cormac 
       McCarthy. Hume gathers "attacks" on the reader into 
       categories based on narrative structure and content. 
       Writers of some aggressive fictions may wish to frustrate 
       easy interpretation or criticism. Others may try to induce
       certain responses in readers. Extreme content deployed as 
       a tactic for distancing and alienating can actually 
       produce a contradictory effect: for readers who learn to 
       relax and go with the flow, the result may well be 
       exhilaration rather than revulsion. -- Book jacket. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
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648  7 20th century|2fast 
648  7 21st century|2fast 
648  7 1900-2099|2fast 
650  0 Aggressiveness in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh93007891 
650  0 American fiction|y20th century|xHistory and criticism.
       |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687 
650  0 American fiction|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85004317|y21st century|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2002012478|xHistory and criticism.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001187 
650  0 Aversion in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2010002615 
650  7 Aggressiveness in literature.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/800281 
650  7 American fiction.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       807048 
650  7 Aversion in literature.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/1902473 
655  4 Electronic books. 
655  7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https://
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aHume, Kathryn, 1945-|tAggressive 
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       |w(OCoLC)727704084 
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