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- catalog abstract "The Novel in the Balance investigates the issue of "balance" as a thematic and stylistic feature of contemporary American fiction. In his refreshingly jargon-free examination of modern and postmodern writings, Arthur Saltzman cites the hovering, poised, provisional quality of contemporary fiction as the impetus for his study, and he distinguishes paradox as the common philosophical premise and formal principle uniting the works he considers here. Through a comparative analysis of numerous exemplary modern and postmodern novels, Saltzman identifies the strategies employed to produce a state of equilibrium between opposing forces and opposing viewpoints. Whereas previous fiction embraced formal and philosophical resolution, contemporary fiction, as Saltzman contends, playfully invites disjunction and rupture into its portrayal of reality. Inspired by its subject, the book's structure mirrors the balance found throughout each of the spotlighted works. In the six central chapters, Saltzman juxtaposes compatible novels and then interprets them against, or in terms of, one another. He compares the work of John Hawkes and Marilynne Robinson, E.L. Doctorow and Tim O'Brien, Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy, Robert Coover and Paul Auster, Richard Powers and Stanley Elkin, Leslie Marmon Silko and Charles Johnson, and others. As he probes the issue of balance in recent American fiction, Saltzman joins the ongoing debate between modernist orthodoxies and postmodernist objections and amplifications.".
- catalog contributor b4849758.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: Views from the Brink -- 2. Still Point and Turning World: Second Skin and Housekeeping -- 3. Fiction by Cycles: Lives of the Poets and The Things They Carried -- 4. Magisters Ludi: The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. and The Music of Chance -- 5. Fluent Mundos: Ratner's Star and Plus -- 6. The Poetics of Elsewhere: Prisoner's Dilemma and The MacGuffin -- 7. Mergence Myths: Ceremony and Middle Passage -- 8. Maximalist Stories, Minimalist Novels.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The Novel in the Balance investigates the issue of "balance" as a thematic and stylistic feature of contemporary American fiction. In his refreshingly jargon-free examination of modern and postmodern writings, Arthur Saltzman cites the hovering, poised, provisional quality of contemporary fiction as the impetus for his study, and he distinguishes paradox as the common philosophical premise and formal principle uniting the works he considers here. Through a comparative analysis of numerous exemplary modern and postmodern novels, Saltzman identifies the strategies employed to produce a state of equilibrium between opposing forces and opposing viewpoints. Whereas previous fiction embraced formal and philosophical resolution, contemporary fiction, as Saltzman contends, playfully invites disjunction and rupture into its portrayal of reality. Inspired by its subject, the book's structure mirrors the balance found throughout each of the spotlighted works. In the six central chapters, Saltzman juxtaposes compatible novels and then interprets them against, or in terms of, one another. He compares the work of John Hawkes and Marilynne Robinson, E.L. Doctorow and Tim O'Brien, Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy, Robert Coover and Paul Auster, Richard Powers and Stanley Elkin, Leslie Marmon Silko and Charles Johnson, and others. As he probes the issue of balance in recent American fiction, Saltzman joins the ongoing debate between modernist orthodoxies and postmodernist objections and amplifications.".
- catalog extent "x, 188 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Novel in the balance.".
- catalog identifier "087249960X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Novel in the balance.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Novel in the balance.".
- catalog subject "813/.5409 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS379 .S24 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: Views from the Brink -- 2. Still Point and Turning World: Second Skin and Housekeeping -- 3. Fiction by Cycles: Lives of the Poets and The Things They Carried -- 4. Magisters Ludi: The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. and The Music of Chance -- 5. Fluent Mundos: Ratner's Star and Plus -- 6. The Poetics of Elsewhere: Prisoner's Dilemma and The MacGuffin -- 7. Mergence Myths: Ceremony and Middle Passage -- 8. Maximalist Stories, Minimalist Novels.".
- catalog title "The novel in the balance / Arthur M. Saltzman.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".