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... representation of heterogenous realities and domains of knowledge” (Ercolino 2015 : 39). To rephrase, the encyclopedic mode is what allows the maximalist novel to construct a multifaceted and dynamic world that is not restricted to a single subject position (or even to multiple homogenous subject positions...

... 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...

... , 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...

... : 371 – 94 . Delazari Ivan . 2021 . Musical Stimulacra: Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen . New York : Routledge . Ercolino Stefano . 2012 . “ The Maximalist Novel .” Comparative Literature 64 , no. 3 : 241 – 56 . Felski Rita . 2015 . The Limits...

... gender, particularly in Ireland, and Victorian manliness. 18. Digressions are part of Ercolino's ( 2014 : 74 – 75) “diegetic exuberance,” though middle sister's digressions do not undermine the central subject or plot as, he argues, maximalist novels do. Works Cited Alexander Neal...

..., 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...

...-interview . Ercolino Stefano . 2014 . The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon's “Gravity's Rainbow” to Roberto Bolaño's “2666.” Translated by Sbragia Albert . London : Bloomsbury . Fraiman Susan . 2012 . “ Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals: Tracking Gender in Animal Studies...

... 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...