Text/Countertext : Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
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
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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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