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Co-herencia
Print version ISSN 1794-5887
Abstract
WILLIAMS, Raymond L. New Approaches to the novel: From Terra Nostrato twitter literature. Co-herencia [online]. 2015, vol.12, n.22, pp.13-23. ISSN 1794-5887. https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.12.22.1.
This article addresses new approaches to the novel in the twenty-first century. It begins with an affirmation that even the most avant-garde of contemporary critics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century share a commonality: a background in what was identified as "close reading" in the Anglo-American academic world and analyse de texte in French. After numerous declarations in recent decades about the death of the novel, the death of the author and the death of literary criticism, it is evident that the novel as a genre has survived, authors remain a subject of study, and new approaches are possible. The study of trauma in fiction (as introduced by Cathy Caruth and David Aberbach), as well as eco-criticism, are promising new points of departure. The required close reading implied by Twitter also opens up new possibilities.
Keywords : Close reading; eco-criticism; trauma; twitter.