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- catalog abstract ""Lately I've been possessed of a singularly unhappy idea: The greatest influence on American fiction for the last twenty years may have been Richard Nixon." What happens to American fiction in a time when villains are deprived of their villainy; when our consumer culture insists on happy endings? Did Richard Nixon start a trend of dysfunctional narration that is now rife throughout fiction? In Burning Down the House, Baxter delves into the social and political. Circumstances that influence today's "urgent issues of storytelling." Baxter invites unexpected connections: between gossip and characterization; between Puritanism, consumerism, and epiphanies; between violence and data processing. By asking readers to "explore the imagination's grip on daily life and how one lives in the pressure of that grip," Baxter offers a unique perspective into the reading and writing of contemporary fiction.".
- catalog contributor b10320073.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""Lately I've been possessed of a singularly unhappy idea: The greatest influence on American fiction for the last twenty years may have been Richard Nixon." What happens to American fiction in a time when villains are deprived of their villainy; when our consumer culture insists on happy endings? Did Richard Nixon start a trend of dysfunctional narration that is now rife throughout fiction? In Burning Down the House, Baxter delves into the social and political.".
- catalog description "Circumstances that influence today's "urgent issues of storytelling." Baxter invites unexpected connections: between gossip and characterization; between Puritanism, consumerism, and epiphanies; between violence and data processing. By asking readers to "explore the imagination's grip on daily life and how one lives in the pressure of that grip," Baxter offers a unique perspective into the reading and writing of contemporary fiction.".
- catalog description "Dysfunctional narratives, or: "Mistakes were made" -- On defamiliarization -- Against epiphanies -- Talking forks: fiction and the inner life of objects -- Counterpointed characterization -- Rhyming action -- Maps and legends of Hell: notes on melodrama -- Donald Barthelme blues -- Stillness.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 245 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Burning down the house.".
- catalog identifier "155597256X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Burning down the house.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press,".
- catalog relation "Burning down the house.".
- catalog subject "813/.509 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS379 .B37 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Dysfunctional narratives, or: "Mistakes were made" -- On defamiliarization -- Against epiphanies -- Talking forks: fiction and the inner life of objects -- Counterpointed characterization -- Rhyming action -- Maps and legends of Hell: notes on melodrama -- Donald Barthelme blues -- Stillness.".
- catalog title "Burning down the house : essays on fiction / Charles Baxter.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".