Print version: Hume, Kathryn. Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012 xiii, 200 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9780801450013
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-193) and index
The author-reader contract -- The narrative speed in contemporary fiction -- Modalities of complaint -- Conjugations of the grotesque -- Violence -- Attacking the reader’s ontological assumptions -- Why read aggressive fictions?