National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris
In his début novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), Joshua Ferris narrates his story of a pre-9/11 Chicago advertising agency in the first-person plural. Such narrative experimentation recurs across his fiction and is often linked to national concerns. This essay analyzes narrative voice, personal p...
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| description | In his début novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), Joshua Ferris narrates his story of a pre-9/11 Chicago advertising agency in the first-person plural. Such narrative experimentation recurs across his fiction and is often linked to national concerns. This essay analyzes narrative voice, personal pro- nouns, and the state of the nation, investigating a writer whose work has received much popular attention but little academic interest to date. |
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| spelling | nottingham-362982020-05-04T17:36:53Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36298/ National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris Maxey, Ruth In his début novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), Joshua Ferris narrates his story of a pre-9/11 Chicago advertising agency in the first-person plural. Such narrative experimentation recurs across his fiction and is often linked to national concerns. This essay analyzes narrative voice, personal pro- nouns, and the state of the nation, investigating a writer whose work has received much popular attention but little academic interest to date. Taylor & Francis 2016-02-16 Article PeerReviewed Maxey, Ruth (2016) National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 57 (2). pp. 208-216. ISSN 1939-9138 Narrative voice; Joshua Ferris; America; Narratology; Collective narrator http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019410 doi:10.1080/00111619.2015.1019410 doi:10.1080/00111619.2015.1019410 |
| spellingShingle | Narrative voice; Joshua Ferris; America; Narratology; Collective narrator Maxey, Ruth National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris |
| title | National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris |
| title_full | National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris |
| title_fullStr | National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris |
| title_full_unstemmed | National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris |
| title_short | National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris |
| title_sort | national stories and narrative voice in the fiction of joshua ferris |
| topic | Narrative voice; Joshua Ferris; America; Narratology; Collective narrator |
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