Eternalized fragments : reclaiming aesthetics in contemporary world fiction /

Bridges discussions of traditional aesthetics with contemporary neuroaesthetics and evolutionary psychology and analyzes texts from many cultural and national traditions (including Gabriel García Márquez, Kazuo Ishiguro, Arundhati Roy, Jeanette Winterson, Jennifer Egan, Italo Calvino, Flann O'B...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wang, W. Michelle (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2020].
Series:	Cognitive approaches to culture.
Subjects:	Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Aesthetics in literature.

Table of Contents:

Play (I): Formal (dis)order, sensory chaos ; A visit from the Goon Squad ; The castle of crossed destinies
Play (II): Postmodern play with possible worlds ; At swim-two-birds ; Lanark
Literary sublime (I): Imagination reigns ; The third policeman ; Invisible cities
Literary sublime (II): Imaginative engagements of our moralistic ninds ; The God of small things ; Blood meridian
Muted beauty: Complex harmonies ; Written on the body ; Never let me go
Coda: Between borders ; One hundred years of solitude.