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Mannerist Fiction: Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon
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Mannerist Fiction: Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon

In Mannerist Fiction, William Donoghue re-conceptualizes the history of formalism in western literature. Rather than presuming that literary experimentation with form -- distorting space and time -- began in the twentieth century with Modernism, Donoghue identifies the age of Copernicus as the crucible for the first experiments in spatial de-formation, which appeared in mannerist painting and literature.
 
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