Contributor
Lanzendörfer, Tim, editor.
Imprint:Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016.
Descriptionviii, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; I: GENRE AT THE END OF POSTMODERNISM. 1. Aliens in America / Philipp Loffler ; 2. The Digital Intensification of Postmodern Poetics / Lai-Tze Fan ; 3. The Black Box of Genre in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe / Stephen Hock ; 4. Self-Parody and the Aesthetics of Literary Transgression in John Hawkes's An Irish Eye and Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice / Salwa Karoui-Elounelli ; 5. Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction: The case of Dave Eggers's You Shall Know Our Velocity / Virginia Pignagnoli -- II: BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW, LITERARY AND POPULAR. 6. Techno-Anxiety as New Middlebrow: Science-fictionalizing in the fictional mainstream of the early twenty-first century / Roger Bellin ; 7. Post-Apocalypse Now: Cormac McCarthy's The Road as post-apocalyptic science fiction / Yonatan Englender and Elana Gomel ; 8. Ghostly Presences: Nostalgia, the literary market, and the cultural work of genre in Stephen King's Joyland / Clemens Spahr ; 9. Postmodern Autonomy and the Poetics of Genre in Matt Ruff's Novels / Annette Schimmelpfennig and Tim Lanzendorfer ; 10. Purposing the Familiar: Genre, repetition, and anxiety in Bret Ellis's Lunar Park / Gavin F. Hurley -- III: REVISITING TRADITIONAL GENRE(S). 11. The Heirs of Don Quixote: Representations of the world-shaping powers of genre in contemporary fiction / Martina Allen ; 12. Reimagining Genre in the Contemporary Immigrant Novel / Katie Daily-Bruckner ; 13. Looking Beneath the Surface: Self and genre in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland / Tim DeJong ; 14. Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture in Dave Eggers's Literature / Robert Mousseau -- Bibliography; Index -- About the Contributors.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
