We-narratives : collective storytelling in contemporary fiction /

"By reading a range of contemporary novels and short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides, Joshua Ferris, Toby Litt, Zakes Mda, Joyce Carol Oates, and Julie Otsuka, and focusing on narrative innovation and experimentation by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, and Susan Sontag, this book tackles questio...

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Main Author:	Bekhta, Natalya (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Series:	Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
Subjects:	Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Grammar, Comparative and general > Pronoun. Storytelling in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Fiction. Erzähltheorie. Fiktion. Literatur. Rhetorik. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Summary:	"By reading a range of contemporary novels and short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides, Joshua Ferris, Toby Litt, Zakes Mda, Joyce Carol Oates, and Julie Otsuka, and focusing on narrative innovation and experimentation by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, and Susan Sontag, this book tackles questions of the formal and performative significance of the first-person plural voice in contemporary fiction"--
Physical Description:	x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
ISBN:	9780814214411 081421441X