Mind of the Novel: Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable

By Bruce F. Kawin

Book Overview

From Moby-Dick to The Unnamable, from A Tale of a Tub to The Book of Questions, Bruce Kawin explores the nature of self-conscious fiction and compares its structure to that of human consciousness. Focusing on texts that confront their own limits by trying to name the unnamable, the ineffable self, Kawin draws on methods from literary criticism to systems theory to explain a variety of first-person works that "dance around the ungraspable subject."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564784622
• ISBN13: 9781564784629
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher