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Encyclopaedism and totality in contemporary fiction /

"Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book delineates a new trend in recent fiction of looking for new ways to approach 'totality', a trend which reclaims 'totality' as a method for approaching the con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ward, Kiron (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Series:	New horizons in contemporary writing.
Subjects:	Fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature. Roman > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.

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