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- Book Title
- Free Indirect
- Title
- Free Indirect
- Subtitle
- The Novel in a Postfictional Age
- ISBN-10
- 0231192975
- EAN
- 9780231192972
- ISBN
- 9780231192972
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 07/26/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Publication Name
- Free Indirect : the Novel in a Postfictional Age
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Series
- Literature Now Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls "free indirect," in which the novel's refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231192975
ISBN-13
9780231192972
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7057246134
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Free Indirect : the Novel in a Postfictional Age
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Literature Now Ser.
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn3347.B49 2022
Reviews
An illuminating work of novel theory that will stimulate and challenge the study of contemporary literature and of the novel alike., Free Indirect is a must-read for anyone working in novel studies. It offers entirely new terms for understanding what the novel is and does. The philosophical depth of the argument is matched by its impressive erudition. With this book, Timothy Bewes takes his place among the major theorists of the novel., Bewes teaches us how to read novelistically , where the lines between insight and experiment are blurred. As Bewes shows, pushing these limits is what keeps thought alive, and perhaps, free., This unapologetically polemical book is disturbing in the very best of ways, including the radical ideological optimism of its claims for the novel's anti-formalist fugitivity. Tracking a historical mutation in the nature of contemporary fiction with eye-opening consequences for literary theory and beyond, Bewes has once again written a brilliant and utterly unforgettable book. Free Indirect is one of the boldest works of criticism I've encountered in decades. The study of the novel cannot be the same after its intervention., Free Indirect is the first work of literary theory to make sense of the contemporary novel and its maddening relationship to fiction. With patience and a great deal of wit, Bewes dispenses with the red herrings of novel theory--form, connection, subjectivity--to unveil how the novel thinks, and how its thinking hollows out the spurious distinction between fiction and nonfiction. This is a brilliant, brave, and exceptionally unsettling book for how it guides its readers to the outer limits of what criticism can say or do, and leaves them there, in the realm of pure thought., Can a single book tell us about the life of the novel after the death of the novel, after the end of theory, and after the eclipse of literary institutions? Yes. Bewes shrinks from nothing in reading contemporary fiction outside all traditional approaches. A true work of novel theory and a bracing challenge to literary-critical orthodoxy., Summoning the work of a range of contemporary authors, from W. G. Sebald to Zadie Smith, Rachel Cusk, and Jesse Ball, Free Indirect constructs a remarkable theory of the contemporary novel, arguing that it thinks differently from how it represents thinking and in so doing both enacts and articulates a novel way for thought to relate to the body, language, and the environment. In Bewes' powerful readings, the contemporary novel is interested less in the traditional categories of character, plot, or narrative, than in unbinding thought from them in order to release it into the unformed and the obscure; it thus transcends the realm of the aesthetic, and instructs us in new possibilities for thinking in the twenty-first century. No conversation about the contemporary novel will henceforth be possible without approaching Free Indirect ., This unapologetically polemical book is disturbing in the very best of ways, including the radical ideological optimism of its claims for the novel's anti-formalist fugitivity. Tracking a historical mutation in the nature of contemporary fiction with eye-opening consequences for literary theory and beyond, Tim Bewes has once again written a brilliant and utterly unforgettable book. Free Indirect is one of the boldest works of criticism I've encountered in decades. The study of the novel cannot be the same after its intervention., Summoning the work of a range of contemporary authors, from Sebald to Zadie Smith, Rachel Cusk, and Jessie Ball, Free Indirect constructs a remarkable theory of the contemporary novel, arguing that it thinks differently from how it represents thinking, and in so doing both enacts and articulates a novel way for thought to relate to the body, language, and the environment. In Bewes' powerful readings, the contemporary novel is interested less in the traditional categories of character, plot, or narrative, than in unbinding thought from them in order to release it into the unformed and the obscure; it thus transcends the realm of the aesthetic, and instructs us in new possibilities for thinking in the twenty-first century. No conversation about the contemporary novel will henceforth be possible without approaching Free Indirect ., For scholars working on the twenty-first century this is an invaluable text for its examinations of perspective, discourse, thought, and genre. . . As critics and readers continue to parse its relevancy amidst so many competing genres, Bewes's work reminds us of the novel's inherent ability to transform and provoke., In tracing the autonomisation of thought from thinker, Bewes makes significant headway not only in conceptualising the contemporary novel, but also in identifying the theoretical problems that have made that task so difficult., Bewes has produced a work for the ages--an intervention in critical theory that will forever change the way we read fiction., [This] study seeks to overturn pretty much everything that has ever been thought and said about the novel. By its lights, a great deal of what counts as ordinary novel criticism, even very good criticism, looks unenlightened and, what's worse, dreary. . . [ Free Indirect ]'s ambition is dazzling, as is its sentence-by-sentence intelligence., Free Indirect upends modes of formal criticism and offers a bold view of contemporary literature and its study. This is a vital and important book for thinking about recent fiction, but also for reconsidering the practice of criticism in the present.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction. Unthinking Connections Part I. The Novel Form and Its Limits 1. The Problem of Form 2. Against Exemplarity: W. G. Sebald Part II. The Emergence of Postfictional Aesthetics 3. The Instantiation Relation 4. The Postfictional Hypothesis 5. The Logic of Disconnection Interlude. Fictional Discourse as Event: On Jesse Ball Part III. The Free Indirect 6. How Does Immanence Show Itself? 7. What Is a Sensorimotor Break? Deleuze on Cinema Interlude. Profiling 8. Rancière: Toward Nonregime Thinking Conclusion. The Indeterminate Thought of the Free Indirect Notes Index
Topic
Modern / 21st Century, Semiotics & Theory
Lccn
2021-054788
Dewey Decimal
809.3
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
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