The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction

"A dominant but deeply undertheorized feature of serious contemporary writing is its fragmentary nature. This book powerfully, intelligently, and rigorously fills that lack (lack being, of course, what fragmentation is forever exploring)." David Shields, Pr. at the Univ.of Washington. By Vanessa Guignery and Wojciech Drag, eds. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-62273-616-4 Vanessa Guignery is Professor of Contemporary English and Postcolonial Literature at École normale supérieure de Lyon. She published The Fiction of Julian Barnes (2006) and Conversations with Julian Barnes (co-edited with Ryan Roberts, 2009).