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Middle Grounds: Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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1988
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Creative NonfictionSpeculative PhilosophyLiterary HistoryLiterary TheoryMiddle GroundsFirst-person NarrativeLiterary CriticismLiterary StudyContemporary FictionArtsSelf-reflexive FictionCritical TheoryLanguage StudiesAlan Wilde IdentifiesBest WorksAmerican LiteratureNarrative RepresentationModernity
Alan Wilde identifies and defends what he calls midfiction, which rejects both the extremes of realism and experimental, self-reflexive fiction. He offers as examples the best works of Apple, Berger, Barthelme, Pynchon, and Paley.