Stéphane Vanderhaeghe, Dear Incomprehension. On American Speculative Fiction

“A rose is a rose and a heart is a heart. Until they’re not.” (9)In this 260-page critical essay, 20th and 21st-century American literature scholar Stéphane Vanderhaeghe proposes an original approach to contemporary North American works of fiction that are generally labeled as experimental because...

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1. Verfasser: BOUGEROL, Maud
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: E-rea 2026
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Zusammenfassung:“A rose is a rose and a heart is a heart. Until they’re not.” (9)In this 260-page critical essay, 20th and 21st-century American literature scholar Stéphane Vanderhaeghe proposes an original approach to contemporary North American works of fiction that are generally labeled as experimental because they fail to operate along conventional novelistic lines. He chooses to call this body of texts “speculative fiction,” not because they conform to the genre that is usually associated with the phra...