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020			_a9781503637559
028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/103A, H. No.-15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. _c: ZBD0358 _d: 4/12/2024
082			_a808.3 WRI
100			_aWright, Daniel.
245			_aThe Grounds of the Novel _c/ Daniel Wright.
260			_a, California _b: Stanford University Press _c, 2024.
300			_axiii, 229p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1711
520			_aWhat grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon with the ontological status of their works. Philosophers who debate whether fictional worlds exist take the novel as an ontological problem to be solved; instead, Wright reveals the novel as a genre of immanent ontological critique. Wright argues that the novel imagines its own metaphysical "grounds" through figuration, understanding fictional being as self-sufficient, cohesive, and alive, rather than as beholden to the actual world as an existential anchor. Through philosophically attuned close readings of novels and reflections on writerly craft by Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, Colson Whitehead, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, Henry James, and Akwaeke Emezi, Wright shares an impassioned vision of reading as stepping into ontologically terraformed worlds, and of literary criticism as treading and re-treading the novel's grounds.
650			_aNovel
650			_aPhilosophers
650			_aFiction
700			_a Daniel Wright
942			_cBOOK
999			_c62602 _d62602