Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction

by Jerome Klinkowitz

If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, "content" does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction, addresses this question in Structuring the Void , an account of what today's novelists and short story writers do when they produce a fictive work. Klinkowitz's focus is on the way in which writers have turned this lack of content itself into subject...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822312050
• ISBN13: 9780822312055
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages