{"product_id":"encyclopaedism-and-totality-in-contemporary-fiction-paperback","title":"Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKiron Ward\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. \u003c\/b\u003eChapters provide important new insights into the new ways that authors approach, reclaim, and use 'totality'-as a method for approaching the contemporary, rather than an object to be represented. In this, we find some of the most radical and challenging attempts in recent fiction to reimagine our world on the back of a contested history and in the face of an unstable future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere major studies of literary encyclopaedism have historically tended to draw from the canon, this book looks to move beyond this tradition, and pays particular attention to work from Indigenous, Asian American, and Latin American contexts. In doing so, it looks to address the challenges of reading world literature in the contemporary.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKiron Ward\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK.His latest publications include \u003ci\u003eDon DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEnycyclopedia Joyce \u003c\/i\u003e(2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53909973598515,"sku":"9781350202436","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YwhVPqWgrq9781350202436.webp?v=1787834325","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/encyclopaedism-and-totality-in-contemporary-fiction-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}