National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris

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Maxey, Ruth (2016) National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 57 (2). pp. 208-216. ISSN 1939-9138

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Abstract

In his début novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), Joshua Ferris narrates his story of a pre-9/11 Chicago advertising agency in the first-person plural. Such narrative experimentation recurs across his fiction and is often linked to national concerns. This essay analyzes narrative voice, personal pro- nouns, and the state of the nation, investigating a writer whose work has received much popular attention but little academic interest to date.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/776169
Additional Information: The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 2016 http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019410 Ruth Maxey, "National Stories and Narrative Voice in the Fiction of Joshua Ferris", Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 57.2 (2016), 208-216, reproduced with permission of Taylor & Francis.
Keywords: Narrative voice; Joshua Ferris; America; Narratology; Collective narrator
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies > Department of American and Canadian Studies
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019410
Depositing User: Maxey, Ruth
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2016 14:51
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 17:36
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/36298

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