Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel

by Kathryn Hume

A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers--or to disorient them by shunning traditional plot patterns and character development. Kathryn Hume calls such works "aggressive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801450012
• ISBN13: 9780801450013
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher