Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction(Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Novel Arguments deals with American innovative (postmodern, metafictional, experimental) fiction since the sixties. It advances a concept of the "argument" of fiction to correct criticism's too purely formal interest in innovation. The book closely examines the readings of five important innovative novels by Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, Robert Coover, Walter Abish, and Kathy Acker and shows how