Contemporary American and Canadian Writers #: The Quiet Contemporary American Novel

Contemporary American and Canadian Writers #: The Quiet Contemporary American Novel
Rachel Sykes
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15 Mar 2022 UK
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9781526163615
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This book explores the concept of ' quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term' s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In doing so, it makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions, arguing that from Hester Prynne to Clarissa Dalloway, from Bartleby to William Stoner, the Western tradition is filled with quiet characters. Secondly, it asks what it means for a novel to be quiet and how we might read for quiet in an American literary tradition that critics so often describe as noisy. Examining recent works by Marilynne Robinson, Teju Cole and Ben Lerner, among others, the book argues that quiet can be a multi-faceted state of existence, one that is communicative and expressive in as many ways as noise but filled with potential for radical discourse by its marginalisation as a mode of expression.

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' A stylishly written monograph that is packed with interesting readings of contemporary American novels. ' The Cambridge Quarterly ' The Quiet Contemporary American Novel urges us to consider "quiet" as a dynamic force and, indeed, by concluding with some of the more troubling aspects of quiet as represented in Cole and Lerner' s novels, it enacts that dynamic - propelling further, deeper contemplation. ' European Journal of American Culture ' In The Quiet Contemporary American Novel, Rachel Sykes boldly attempts to define and problematize a neglected area in the study of twenty-first-century American fiction [. . . ] Set within a large framework of two centuries of American culture, their well-researched monograph brings into focus nine contemporary novels [. . . ] as well as discussing the works of many other authors, from Thoreau, Melville and Hawthorne to Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Pynchon. ' Transatlantica -- .
Rachel Sykes is Associate Professor in Contemporary Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham
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ISBN-13: 9781526163615
Published: 15 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 240

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