National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maxey, Ruth
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2016
Subjects:	Narrative voice; Joshua Ferris; America; Narratology; Collective narrator
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36298/

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