Bewes Free Indirect

The Novel in a Postfictional Age
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-54947-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Literature Now

This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls “free indirect,” in which the novel’s refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bewes, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. Unthinking Connections
Part I. The Novel Form and Its Limits
1. The Problem of Form
2. Against Exemplarity: W. G. Sebald
Part II. The Emergence of Postfictional Aesthetics
3. The Instantiation Relation
4. The Postfictional Hypothesis
5. The Logic of Disconnection
Interlude. Fictional Discourse as Event: On Jesse Ball
Part III. The Free Indirect
6. How Does Immanence Show Itself?
7. What Is a Sensorimotor Break? Deleuze on Cinema
Interlude. Profiling
8. Rancière: Toward Nonregime Thinking
Conclusion. The Indeterminate Thought of the Free Indirect
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy Bewes is professor of English at Brown University. His books include The Event of Postcolonial Shame (2011); Reification, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (2002); and Cynicism and Postmodernity (1997).