Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel - Hume, Kathryn, 1945- (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012)
The author-reader contract -- The narrative speed in contemporary fiction -- Modalities of complaint -- Conjugations of the grotesque -- Violence -- Attacking the reader's ontological assumptions -- Why read aggressive fictions?
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-193) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Keywords: Aggressiveness in literature; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Electronic books