Burning down the house : essays on fiction / Charles Baxter.
Burning down the house : essays on fiction / Charles Baxter.
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Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c1997.
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N813.509/14
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English
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xiv, 245 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
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 -- The Donald Barthelme Blues -- Stillness.
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Publisher
Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c1997.
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Minnesota
Date Published
c1997.
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"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 nar...
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Burning down the house : essays on fiction / Charles Baxter.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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c1997.
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N813.509/14
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74VvDLxRxX5A
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155597256X
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813.509
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991004956069702626
