00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862157674 Buklod 20240215113351.0 g||| | || || ta 190216s2017 xx rb |001 0|eng d 9780198766148 (hbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00032979067 BC-70647 Fastbooks Educational Supply, Inc. Php6,000.00 DLLA Faculty DLC BAG rda eng PR 888 S83 M37 2017 Masters, Ben author. Novel style ethics and excess in English fiction since the 1960s Ben Masters. Ethics and excess in English fiction since the 1960s. Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2017. ix, 200 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-194) and index. "We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find some linguistic luxury, we are flirting with a recessionary mood. Big books abound, but rhetorical largesse at the level of the sentence is a shrinking economy. There is a prevailing minimalist sensibility in the twenty-first century. Novel Style is driven by the conviction that elaborate writing opens up unique ways of thinking that are endangered when expression is reduced to its leanest possible forms. By re-examining the works of essential English stylists of the late twentieth century (Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis), as well as a newer generation of twenty-first-century stylists (Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, David Mitchell), Ben Masters argues for the ethical power of stylistic flamboyance in fiction and demonstrates how being a stylist and an ethicist are one and the same thing. A passionate championing of elaborate writing and close reading, Novel Style illuminates what it means to have style and how style can change us."--Dust jacket. Literary style. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. English fiction 21st century History and criticism. English fiction Moral and ethical aspects. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PR 888 S83 M37 2017 Book