@article{1432282,
      recid = {1432282},
      author = {Axelrod, Mark,},
      title = {Untheories of fiction : literary essays from Diderot to  Markson /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {'As a fiction writer himself and a scholar who has thought  about modernism and postmodernism from a theoretical  perspective, Mark Axelrod is in a unique position to  formulate a nuanced un-theory of the novel tackling this  literary tradition since the inception of the genre in the  17th century up to our present, discombobulated days.' -  Pablo Baler, Professor of Latin American Literature,  California State University, Los Angeles, USA This book  takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing  from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into question  the notion of a singular "theory of fiction," especially in  relation to the novel. Unlike Forster's approach to  "Aspects of the Novel," which implied there is only one  kind of novel to which there may be an aspect, this book  deconstructs how one approach to studying something as  protean as the novel cannot be accomplished. To that end,  the text uses Diderot's This Is Not A Story (1772) and  David Markson's This Is Not A Novel (2016) as a frame and  imbedded within are essays on De Maistre's Voyage Around My  Room (1829), Machado de Assis's Posthumous Memoirs Of Braz  Cubas (1881), André Breton's Nadja (1928) and Elizabeth  Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept  (1945).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1432282},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59346-9},
}