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...Stefano Ercolino This article seeks to define a new genre of the contemporary novel: the maximalist novel . It is an aesthetically hybrid genre that developed in the United States in the early 1970s and then spread to Europe at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The aim of this article...

...-dominated, tradition-obsessed one favored by the New Critics: a set of plural modernism s , for starters, embracing reactionary and radical artists, minimalist and maximalist styles, anti-modern and futurist ideologies; one produced by men and women, global in its sites of production and circulation, veined...

..., to rewrite anti-humanist insights in humanist terms. With Valente, too, minimalist techniques like extreme brevity and the elimina- tion of literary ornament often yield maximalist claims of significance. Even if one accepts the continued power and viability of this late modernist vision, it seems...

... have rarely been scrutinized with any rigor . . . . Frankly dogmatic and based on a doctrinal belief in the Absolute, which could somehow manifest itself in mundane experience, Benjamin’s maximalist definition of genuine experience could only be a utopian counter-factual to virtually everything...