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elusive everyday in the fiction of Marilynne Robinson
Framing Robinson's fiction within the dynamics of everyday life, this study highlights the tensions of form and content that haunt moments of transcendence in her work. Robinson's novels, it argues, construct a world that is mimetic as well as symbolic and revelatory. Although the heightened apprehension of the quotidian in Robinson's novels often registers powerfully and beautifully in representational terms, its aesthetic intensity is enacted at the expense of characters who patrol the margins of the ordinary with unceasing vigilance. Inhabiting the everyday self-consciously, her protagonists perform a forced relationship to the ordinary that seldom relaxes into the natural or the familiar; scarred by grief, illness, aging, and trauma, they inhabit a world of transcendent beauty suffused with the terrifying threat of loss.
Cover -- The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: The Uncomfortable Ordinary -- 2: Housekeeping and the Phantom Ordinary -- 3: Living Dying in Gilead -- 4: The Uninhabitable Space of Home -- 5: Anxiety and the Everyday in Lila -- 6: Race and Imaginary Intimacy in Jack -- References -- Index
This edition also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021