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03576aam a2200517 i 4500 001 B76CD002586511EA978CCE3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200226010029 008 190605s2019 iau b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2019010728 020 $a 1609386752 020 $a 9781609386757 035 $a (OCoLC)1102468499 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.A76 $b K56 2019 082 00 $a 813/.92093561 $2 23 100 1 $a Kingston-Reese, Alexandra, $d 1989- $e author. 245 10 $a Contemporary novelists and the aesthetics of twenty-first century American life / $c by Alexandra Kingston-Reese. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xv, 200 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture 520 $a "Contemporary culture is full of anxiety. But what happens when art, which usually purports to soothe us, actually disturbs us? What affective distortions do aesthetic experiences afford us when solace isn't the ultimate ambition? What happens when art fails, or when we fail to engage with art? When aesthetic experience negates the profound, verges on the automatic, and is troubled by dissonant feelings? Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life explores how the contemporary novel is increasingly shifting the way we think about art's effects on us to illuminate how novelistic mediations of and meditations on aesthetic experience are enriched by a paradoxical concern with the ineffability and inexpressibility of personal and communal losses or disasters. Reading alongside key practitioners in contemporary fiction and art criticism, including Teju Cole, Jennifer Egan, Sheila Heti, Siri Hustvedt, Chris Kraus, Ben Lerner, and Zadie Smith, Alexandra Kingston-Reese suggests a rip away from contentment, comfort, and habit through five modes of against--as slant rhymes, afterimage, transcription, synaesthesia, and suspension--which capture not only affective dissonance, but formal experimentation"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Art and literature $z United States.56. 650 0 $a Cognitive dissonance in literature. 650 0 $a Affect (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 0 $a Life in literature. 650 0 $a Literature $x Psychology. 650 0 $a Experimental literature, American $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Affect (Psychology) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902304 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Art and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815400 650 7 $a Cognitive dissonance in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00866530 650 7 $a Life in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00998285 650 7 $a Literature $x Psychology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000008 650 7 $a Realism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091237 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kingston-Reese, Alexandra, 1989- $t Contemporary novelists and the aesthetics of twenty-first century American life $d Iowa City : 2020. $z 9781609386764 $w (DLC) 2019981283 830 0 $a New American canon. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317013542.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B76CD002586511EA978CCE3397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search