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03679aam a2200433 i 4500 001 4770C59A4EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221018010048 008 211117s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021054788 020 $a 0231192975 020 $a 9780231192972 020 $a 023119160X 020 $a 9780231191609 035 $a (OCoLC)1286071444 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCO $d YDX $d MNN $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN3347 $b .B49 2022 100 1 $a Bewes, Timothy, $e author. 245 10 $a Free indirect : $b the novel in a postfictional age / $c Timothy Bewes. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xv, 315 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Literature now 520 $a "Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of twentieth-century writing-E. M. Forster's "Only connect . . ." and Fredric Jameson's "Always historicize!"-helped establish connection as the purpose of the novel and its reconstruction as the task of criticism. But what if connection was not the novel's modus operandi but the defining aesthetic ideology of our era-and its most monetizable commodity? What kind of thought is left for the novel when all ideas are acceptable as long as they can be fitted to a consumer profile? This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls "free indirect," in which the novel's refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found. It is not situated in a character or a narrator and does not take a subjective or perceptual form. Far from heralding the arrival of a new literary mode, this development represents the rediscovery of a quality that has been largely ignored by theorists: thought at the limits of form. Free Indirect contends that this self-awakening of contemporary fiction represents the most promising solution to the problem of thought today"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction. Unthinking Connections -- Part I. The Novel Form and Its Limits. The Problem of Form -- Against Exemplarity: W. G. Sebald. Part II. The Emergence of Postfictional Aesthetics. The Instantiation Relation-- The Postfictional Hypothesis -- The Logic of Disconnection. Interlude. Fictional Discourse as Event: On Jesse Ball. Part III. The Free Indirect. How Does Immanence Show Itself? -- What Is a Sensorimotor Break? Deleuze on Cinema. Interlude. Profiling: Rancière:Toward Nonregime Thinking -- The Indeterminate Thought of the Free Indirect. 650 0 $a Fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Fiction genres $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Postmodernism (Literature) 650 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00923709 650 7 $a Postmodernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073181 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bewes, Timothy. $t Free indirect $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2022 $z 9780231549479 $w (DLC) 2021054789 830 0 $a Literature Now. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012515.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230503012705.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230218011024.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4770C59A4EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search