{"product_id":"mannerist-fiction-william-donoghue-9781442648012","title":"Mannerist Fiction: Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMannerist Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, William Donoghue re-conceptualizes the history of formalism in western literature. Rather than presuming that literary experimentation with form - distorting space and time - began in the twentieth century with Modernism, Donoghue identifies the age of Copernicus as the crucible for the first experiments in spatial de-formation, which appeared in mannerist painting and literature. With wide-ranging erudition, \u003cem\u003eMannerist Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e connects these literary and pictorial developments and traces their repetition and evolution over the next five hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime and again, Donoghue explains, scientific and literary paradigm shifts have occurred in parallel. Rabelais and Jonson wrote in the aftermath of changes in the western sense of space wrought by Copernicus and the voyages of discovery, Jonathan Swift and the Marquis de Sade in the age of Newton, Thomas Pynchon in the age of Einstein. With his analysis, Donoghue establishes disfigurement and deformation as perennial sources of literary fascination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Donoghue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442648015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442648012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.41w x 0.73d","brand":"William Donoghue","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46825782116607,"sku":"9781442648012","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c8a0478d-be3f-4294-905e-bd2e5980cdb7.jpg?v=1746073607","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mannerist-fiction-william-donoghue-9781442648012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}