Writing the contemporary : the banal and the infra-ordinary in the works of Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Nicholson Baker

Fhis comparative study of Nicholson Baker and Jean-Philippe Toussaint addresses the importance of the everyday in contemporary literature and theory. I examine the contemporary in the contexts of knowledge, identity, politics, media, history, urban space, and psychology. What emerges is a consensus...

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Main Author: McArthur Richardson, Sar Eve
Published: University College London (University of London) 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498683