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Author Punday, Daniel.

Title Writing at the limit : the novel in the new media ecology / Daniel Punday.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Frontiers of narrative
Frontiers of narrative.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.
Contents Introduction: The Rhetorical Construction of Media Ecologies -- 1. Multimedia Moments Old and New -- 2. Story, Discourse, and Circulation -- 3. Defining the Vocation of the Novel through Narrative Elements -- 4. Writing Beyond the Media Limit? -- 5. Negotiating Public and Private Spaces -- Coda: Connection through Limits and the Myth of Media Fullness -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary "While some cultural critics are pronouncing the death of the novel, a whole generation of novelists have turned to other media with curiosity rather than fear. These novelists are not simply incorporating references to other media into their work for the sake of verisimilitude, they are also engaging precisely such media as a way of talking about what it means to write and read narrative in a society filled with stories told outside the print medium. By examining how some of our best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting. He considers well-known postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon and Robert Coover, more-accessible authors like Maxine Hong Kingston and Oscar Hijuelos, and unjustly overlooked writers like Susan Daitch and Kenneth Gangemi, and asks how their works investigate the nature and limits of print as a medium for storytelling. Writing at the Limit explores how novelists locate print writing within the contemporary media ecology, and what it really means to be writing at print's media limit."--Project Muse.
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Subject American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Mass media and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Mass media and literature.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 2000 - 2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Punday, Daniel. Writing at the limit. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012 9780803236462 (DLC) 2011043319 (OCoLC)759915661
ISBN 9780803240810 (electronic book)
0803240813 (electronic book)
9780803236462 (hardback)
0803236468 (hardback)
Standard No. 9786613664648