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Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth analyzes the psychological and structural dynamic of three postmodern novels: Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, and Philip Roth's The Counterlife. Storytelling becomes here the dangerous activity of a guilty outsider who has come to expect hostile disapproval from all quarters. The result is a sadomasochistic confrontation between these postmodern writers and their imagined audiences: the pleasure of storytelling is linked to the pain the authors inflict upon their readers in retaliation for their anticipated disapproval. The structural consequence is «serial negation» - the constant agonistic oscillation between text and countertext, reflecting the authors' determined efforts to sidestep criticism and maintain artistic control.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Text/Countertext
• Author: Marie A Danziger
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 120
• EAN: 9780820428710
• ISBN: 9780820428710
• ID: 10028608
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 332 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 236 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1997

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