Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction - Hardback

Even after the upheavals wrought by Theory, literary criticism has generally ignored the act and experience of reading itself, proceeding as though something so fundamental to our experience of texts could be taken for granted. Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction draws on deconstruction and the thought of Jacques Derrida to explore the ways in which contemporary fiction engages with reading, its power, the elusive nature of its experience and the failures of understanding inherent in it. Along the way, the book proceeds through close readings of such authors as J.M. Coetzee, David Mitchell, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth.

• | Author: Lisa McNally
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• | Publication Date: Jun 27, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 144116409X
• | ISBN-13: 9781441164094