Abstract
In his article "Genre Categorization in Contemporary British and US-American Novels" Carlos Ceia discusses a certain type of resistance to genre categorization in many novels in contemporary literature. Many British and US-American contemporary novels show patterns in narrative creativity where novel-writing techniques are sometimes more important than the traditional subject matter driven work of fiction. Ceia reviews experimental/metafictional novels which do not show intent to fulfil an aesthetic role pre-determined in a certain moment in history. Not having this kind of burden before them, many contemporary British and US-American novelists devote their artistic imagination more to the "potential" of the narrative text rather than to the "act" of the work of a specific literary art.
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Ceia, Carlos.
"Genre Categorization in Contemporary British and US-American Novels."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
18.3
(2016):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2895>
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