Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology (Frontiers of Narrative) - Hardcover

Punday, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803236468 ISBN 13: 9780803236462

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2012

Synopsis

While some cultural critics are pronouncing the death of the novel, a whole generation of novelists have turned to other media with curiosity rather than fear. These novelists are not simply incorporating references to other media into their work for the sake of verisimilitude, they are also engaging precisely such media as a way of talking about what it means to write and read narrative in a society filled with stories told outside the print medium.

By examining how some of our best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting. He considers well-known postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon and Robert Coover, more-accessible authors like Maxine Hong Kingston and Oscar Hijuelos, and unjustly overlooked writers like Susan Daitch and Kenneth Gangemi, and asks how their works investigate the nature and limits of print as a medium for storytelling.

Writing at the Limit explores how novelists locate print writing within the contemporary media ecology, and what it really means to be writing at print’s media limit.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Punday is a professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Purdue University–Calumet. His most recent books are Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction and Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803236468
• ISBN 13: 9780803236462
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280