The Mythopoeic Reality: The Postwar American Nonfiction Novel /
Mas'ud Zavarzadeh,
- 1.ed.
- USA, University of Illinois Press, 1976
- 262p 23cm
The poetic is followed by analyses of a limited selection of books. But the power of a critical theory, I believe, is to be measured not only in terms of its empirical applications but also in light of its ability to provide new organizing perspectives for a field of study. In the theory section, the concept of the, nonfiction novel has been developed into a generic category with a light level of generality. My purpose here has been to identify the structural principles existing within a family of book which up to now has largely been .My purpose here has been to identify the structural principles existing within a family of books which up to now has largely been treated as a series of isolated cases and misread in terms of concepts derived from distinctly different genres of prose narrative. The codification of various narrative systems, such as the genre of the nonfiction novel, is significant not only for theory and literary semantic and semiotics but also for the formulation of a deep structure grammar of narrative. A universal syntax of prose narrative with the highest degree of generality can be possible only after the preparation of what might be called partial grammars poetics of specific genres.