Mind of the Novel: Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564784629)

From Moby-Dick to The Unnamable, from A Tale of a Tub to The Book of Questions, Bruce Kawin explores the nature of self-conscious fiction and compares its structure to that of human consciousness. Focusing on texts that confront their own limits by trying to name the unnamable, the ineffable self, Kawin draws on methods from literary criticism to systems theory to explain a variety of first-person works that "dance around the ungraspable subject."

Author: Bruce F. Kawin
ISBN-10: 1564784622
ISBN-13: 9781564784629
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.74w x 1.16d