Review Essays on Recent Scholarship: Kavadlo on Palahniuk Criticism’s Defensiveness; Muždeka on UnPlaisirable Postmodern Translation; Chetwynd on Unnatural Narratology’s Postmodern Potential

Abstract

Three Review Essays: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Palahniuk? Transgressive Fiction Meets Defensive Criticism            Review of:Francisco Collado-Rodriguez (ed), Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke Douglas Keesey, Understanding Chuck PalahniukDavid McCracken, Chuck Palahniuk, Parodist: Postmodern Irony in Six Transgressive Novels Against the Plaisir-ization of Translation            Review of:Barciński, A Study of Postmodern Literature in Translation as Illustrated through the Selected Works of Thomas PynchonWalkowitz, Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World LiteratureTrubikhina, The Translator’s Doubts: Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation What Can the First Generation of Unnatural Narratology Offer the Study of “Postmodern” Fiction?Review of:Richardson, Unnatural Narrative: Theory, History, and PracticeAlber, Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and DramaShang, Unnatural Narrative Across Borders: Transnational and Comparative PerspectivesAlber, Skov Nielsen, and Richardson (eds), A Poetics of Unnatural NarrativeAlber and Richardson (eds), Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges [a note from the Book Reviews Editor: if you’re interested in reviewing a book on any aspect of unconventional post-1945 US literature—especially in the present format of single review essays covering multiple related books—please send an email proposing a review to [email protected]]

Keywords

• unnatural narratology
• postmodernism
• translation
• palahniuk
• review essays