{"product_id":"the-maximalist-novel-stefano-ercolino-9781623562915","title":"The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Maximalist Novel \u003c\/i\u003esets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed in the United States from the early 1970s, and then gained popularity in Europe in the early twenty-first century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe maximalist novel has a very strong symbolic and morphological identity. Ercolino sets out ten particular elements which define and structure it as a complex literary form: length, an encyclopedic mode, dissonant chorality, diegetic exuberance, completeness, narrratorial omniscience, paranoid imagination, inter-semiocity, ethical commitment, and hybrid realism. These ten characteristics are common to all of the seven works that centre his discussion: \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e by Thomas Pynchon, \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest \u003c\/i\u003eby David Foster Wallace, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld \u003c\/i\u003eby Don DeLillo, \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth \u003c\/i\u003eby Zadie Smith, \u003ci\u003eThe Corrections \u003c\/i\u003eby Jonathan Franzen, \u003ci\u003e2666 \u003c\/i\u003eby Roberto Bola?o, and \u003ci\u003e2005 dopo Cristo\u003c\/i\u003e by the Babette Factory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough the ten features are not all present in the same way or form in every single text, they are all decisive in defining the genre of the maximalist novel, insofar as they are systematically co-present. Taken singularly, they can be easily found both in modernist and postmodern novels, which are not maximalist. Nevertheless, it is precisely their co-presence, as well as their reciprocal articulation, which make them fundamental in demarcating the maximalist novel as a genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stefano Ercolino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1623562910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623562915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 609","brand":"Stefano Ercolino","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46767198732543,"sku":"9781623562915","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_656eaa1e-fe1d-4b3f-957d-f86cccb7fe7a.jpg?v=1744169123","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-maximalist-novel-stefano-ercolino-9781623562915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}