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Stories of the Middle Space

Reading the Ethics in Postmodern Realisms

by (author) Deborah C. Bowen

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2010
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773536890
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773591035
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

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