Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-8 of 8 Search Results for
maximalist novel
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of Oklahoma 2021 immersion horror genre gender art-horror maximalist novel The narrator of Marisha Pessl's novel Night Film (2014a: 165) likens watching one of (fictional) horror director Stanislas Cordova's films to entering a new, darker reality: “To watch the film once was to be lost...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 167–193.
Published: 01 July 2021
... narration. It is also a “big, ambitious novel,” one that mobilizes maximalist and encyclopedic narrative tendencies to confront the challenge of telling the knotty, bifurcating, ongoing story of the US-Mexico border crisis. Scholarship has suggested that one of the strengths of encyclopedic fiction, one...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
... , the introduction objects to his designation “hysterical realism” to characterize Smith's and other writer's publishing novels in the genre that literary scholarship has called encyclopedic, systems, maximalist, mega, and novels of information. The current debate in literary studies over the methods of postcritique...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Not all novels are “big” and “ambitious,” though. James Wood's ( 2000 ) review of Zadie Smith's White Teeth assigns the two adjectives and the label hysterical realism to only a number of contemporary fictions, which literature scholars would qualify as “encyclopedic” (Kyllönen 2018 ), “maximalist...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (1): 111–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
... digressions do not undermine the central subject or plot as, he argues, maximalist novels do. Works Cited Alexander Neal . 2009 . “ Remembering to Forget: Northern Irish Fiction after the Troubles .” In Irish Literature Since 1990 , edited by Brewster Scott and Parker Michael...
Journal Article
Genre (2020) 53 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., no. 1: 95 110. doi.org /10.2307/3685349. de Man, Paul. 1979. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Ercolino, Stefano. 2014. The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon s Gravity s Rainbow to Roberto Bolaño s 2666...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., and the polarizing Trump presidency. Though this remarkable monologue points in disparate directions, its centrifugal digressions are reined in by centripetal themes and leitmotifs, in line with Stefano Ercolino's ( 2014 ) account of the dual tendencies at work in maximalist literature. In terms of theme, the novel...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (1): 139–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
... that are quite literally too big to read—from experimental novels to television, film, and video games—signals that the megatext is an emergent form native to the era of neoliberalism. But what happens to other long forms, such as the twentieth‐century long poem, when written in an era of megatextuality? Rachel...
