Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel

Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel
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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 0838750672
ISBN-13 : 9780838750674
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Book Synopsis Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel by : Carl Darryl Malmgren

Download or read book Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel written by Carl Darryl Malmgren and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional space is the imaginal expanse of field created by fictional discourse; a space which, through ultimately self-referential and self-validating, necessarily exists in ascertainable relation to the real world outside the text. After defining his theoretical framework the author applies it to American fiction of the twentieth century.


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