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Weird Century.

  • Published In: American Literary History, 2024, v. 36, n. 4. P. 1112 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Marshall, Kate 3 of 3

Abstract

Has the world become weirder? This is a question that a reader of twentieth-century fiction might ask, perhaps especially a reader of realist novels. These novels, as I argue in my recent book Novels by Aliens , evince a genre creep of science fiction, fabulism, and the weird that contends with the fractured and competing crises of our time. By extending this argument through a set of contemporary novellas, I discuss why genre is functioning as an important critical resource for twenty-first-century writing and how the form of the novella focuses genre debates on problems of scale and attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:American Literary History. 2024/12, Vol. 36, Issue 4, p1112
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0896-7148
  • DOI:10.1093/alh/ajae121
  • Accession Number:180950243
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