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Index
List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Character
Presence: conspicuous absence
Substance: concrete nothingness
Structure: blurring and fragmentation
Stability: volatile egos
Stature: a new kind of hero
Purpose: Bildungsroman to Künstlerroman
2 Event
Scale: recalibrating the small and the large
Causality: causal skepticism, mythic parallel, spatial patterning, chance
Plot: anti-narrative
3 Space
Texture: dynamic voids
Mental space: impressionism, free indirect discourse, stream of consciousness
Urban space: Wandering Rocks
4 Time
Orientation: valorizing the present
Pace: faster, slower, multiple
Continuity: broken watches in continuous time
Order: achrony, repetition, trauma, epiphany
5 Framework
Beginning: in the middle of things
Ending: resounding irresolution
6 Text
Mechanics: coined words and stylized sentences
Language: illuminating opacity
Style: feminine, abstract, surreal, collagist
7 Narrator
Vision: singular, serial, parallel, embedded
Voice: nonhuman, shifting, multiple, heteroglossia
Knowledge: creative uncertainty
Conclusion
Appendix: novels discussed in this book
Notes
Index
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