Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon
by
William Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Mannerist Fiction, William Donoghue re-conceptualizes the history of formalism in western literature. Rather than presuming that literary experimentation with form – distorting space and time – began in the twentieth century with Modernism, Donoghue identifies the age of Copernicus as the crucible...