Swallowing a World by Benjamin Bergholtz
Swallowing a World analyzes a series of massive and meandering late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts that represent, formally reproduce, and ultimately invite reflection upon the effects of globalization to show that contemporary maximalism is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.-
Story Logic
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Narrative Across Media
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Storyworlds Across Media
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Handbook of Narrative Analysis
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Narrative Slowness As Effect
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The Imagined Moment
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Writing at the Limit
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Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media
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Storying Domestic Violence
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Useful Fictions
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Narrative Complexity
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Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture
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Contemporary Comics Storytelling
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Imagining Kashmir
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The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place
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Talk Fiction
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Spaces of the Mind
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Opening Acts
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Stories and Minds
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The Cruft of Fiction
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Unnatural Narrative
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Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction
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Narrative Beginnings
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Coincidence and Counterfactuality
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Ethos and Narrative Interpretation
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Affective Narratology
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Fictional Dialogue
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Fictional Minds
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The Emergence of Mind
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The Storyworld Accord
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New Narratives
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Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology
“Swallowing a World offers a brilliant and refreshing account of the contemporary global novel as a maximalist form that both captures the capacious diversity of globalization and transforms erstwhile encyclopedic genresFamiliar works by Salmon Rushdie and Zadie Smith appear in sparklingly new garb, and first-time novels like The Old Drift trouble a distinguished, and mostly male, maximalist lineage that includes the epic, the encyclopedia, and Menippean satire.”—Debjani Ganguly, author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form
“Bergholtz makes a powerful and elegant case for the significance and urgency of his subject, addressing compellingly the maximalist novel genre’s particular relevance to and engagement with our time—the era of late globalization. Swallowing a World strikes me as the best book published in this area in the post–Cold War years. . . . His work is eminently readable.”—Christian Moraru, author of Flat Aesthetics: Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Making of the Contemporary
“Overwhelmed as we are by the impacts of globalization, climate change, and disinformation campaigns, why would we want to read exceedingly long novels? Bergholtz’s answer: ‘maximalist’ fiction offers our exhausted imaginations a reading process that can sustain and inspire us.”—Elena Machado Sáez, author of Market Aesthetics and coauthor of The Latino/a Canon
“Benjamin Bergholtz’s sharp and compelling Swallowing a World will long stand as a landmark in the fast-growing field of maximalist novel studies.”—Stefano Ercolino, author of The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” to Roberto Bolaño’s “2666”
“Bergholtz makes a powerful and elegant case for the significance and urgency of his subject, addressing compellingly the maximalist novel genre’s particular relevance to and engagement with our time—the era of late globalization. Swallowing a World strikes me as the best book published in this area in the post–Cold War years. . . . His work is eminently readable.”—Christian Moraru, author of Flat Aesthetics: Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Making of the Contemporary
“Overwhelmed as we are by the impacts of globalization, climate change, and disinformation campaigns, why would we want to read exceedingly long novels? Bergholtz’s answer: ‘maximalist’ fiction offers our exhausted imaginations a reading process that can sustain and inspire us.”—Elena Machado Sáez, author of Market Aesthetics and coauthor of The Latino/a Canon
“Benjamin Bergholtz’s sharp and compelling Swallowing a World will long stand as a landmark in the fast-growing field of maximalist novel studies.”—Stefano Ercolino, author of The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” to Roberto Bolaño’s “2666”
Benjamin Bergholtz is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781496231284 |
| ISBN 10 | 1496231287 |
| Title | Swallowing a World |
| Author | Benjamin Bergholtz |
| Series | Frontiers Of Narrative |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 2024-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 252 |
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