"Narrative Cloggers": Notes on Description and Subversion in Nicholson Baker’s Fiction

This paper argues that the proliferating descriptive passages in Nicholson Baker's novels seem to short-circuit narrative progression instead of being mere additives to the narrative, in a textual exploration which blurs the traditional distinction between description and narration. The essay...

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Main Author: Françoise Sammarcelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2013-05-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/9996