Text/Countertext : Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth

Name: Text/Countertext
Brand: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
SKU: 9780820428710
Price: 5650 KES
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ISBN: 9780820428710

by Marie A Danziger

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Format Hardback

Book Series Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory

ISBN-10 082042871X

ISBN-13 9780820428710

Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 1st, 1997

Print length 120 Pages

Weight 332 grams

Dimensions 16.00 x 23.60 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: from c 1900 -Psychology

KSh 5,650.00

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Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth analyzes the psychological and structural dynamic of three postmodern novels: Samuel Beckett''s Malone Dies. Doris Lessing''s The Golden Notebook, and Philip Roth''s The Counterlife. Storytelling becomes here the dangerous activity of a guilty outsider who has come to expect hostile disapproval from all quarters. The result is a sadomasochistic confrontation between these postmodern writers and their imagined audiences: the pleasure of storytelling is linked to the pain the authors inflict upon their readers in retaliation for their anticipated disapproval. The structural consequence is «serial negation» - the constant agonistic oscillation between text and countertext, reflecting the authors'' determined efforts to sidestep criticism and maintain artistic control.

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