Stories of the Middle Space
Reading the Ethics in Postmodern Realisms
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2010
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773536890
- Publish Date
- Apr 2010
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773591035
- Publish Date
- Apr 2010
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, and Salman Rushdie, Deborah Bowen makes the case for a new category of "postmodern realism" and shows how contemporary stories about "the real" and "the good" are constructed. Applying theoretical insights from Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin, Bowen investigates categories of postmodern realism such as magic realism, parody, and metafiction while laying the groundwork for Christian readings of a medium that is often perceived as largely irreligious. An illuminating study of well-known contemporary writers, Stories of the Middle Space is a critically nuanced and methodologically innovative work that reads the postmodern from a faith-based perspectives to create new literary insights.
About the author
Deborah C. Bowen is associate professor of English at Redeemer University College.