Winters D. Infinite Fictions: Essays on Literature and Theory

Alresford, UK: Zero Books, 2015. — 222 p. — ISBN10: 178279803X; ISBN13: 978-1782798033.David Winters has quickly become a leading voice in the new landscape of online literary criticism. His widely-published work maps the furthest frontiers of contemporary fiction and theory. The essays in this book range from the American satirist Sam Lipsyte to the reclusive Australian genius Gerald Murnane; from the "distant reading" of Franco Moretti to the legacy of Gordon Lish. Meditations on style, form and fictional worlds sit side-by-side with overviews of the cult status of Oulipo, the aftermath of modernism, and the history of continental philosophy. Infinite Fictions is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the forefront of literary thought.Introduction: Infinite Fictions.
On literature.
Language as Astonishment: Micheline Aharonian Marcom, A Brief History of Yes.
Work the Hurt: Sam Lipsyte, The Fan Parts.
Like Sugar Dissolving: Lydia Davis, The End of the Story.
The Other Life That Is Ours: Dawn Raffel, In the Year of Long Division.
Pratfall into the Infinite: Lars Iyer, Dogma.
The Background Noise of the Universe: Tor Ulven, Replacement.
Difficult Intimacies: Christine Schutt, Prosperous Friends.
The Impenetrable Everyday: Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque.
Fractal Baroque: Jason Schwartz, John the Posthumous.
Stars and Despair: Gabriel Josipovici, Hotel Andromeda.
Not to Fall Silent: Gabriel Josipovici, Infinity.
Between Positivism and Magic: Marek Bieiiczyk, Transparency.
Truth, Force, Composition: Gordon Lish, Peru.
Literature is What We Are Lost In: Ivan Vladislavic, The Loss Library.
No States, Only the Sky: Dylan Nice, Other Kinds.
Wide Skies and Wildflowers: Sam Michel, Strange Cowboy.
Reservoirs of Silence: Miranda Mellis, The Spokes.
Fiction's Reach for Freedom: The Life and Work of Hob Broun.
Start from Zero and Count Backwards: Kjersti Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am.
The Far Side of Fiction: Gerald Murnane, Barley Patch.
No Rings, No Bouquets: Gary Lutz, Divorcer.
Sweet Emptiness: Andrzej Stasink, Dukla.
On theory.
Theory's Renewal: Тепу Eagleton, The Event of Literature.
The Prism of Literature: Franco Moretti, Distant Reading and The Bourgeois.
Outside the Onlipo: Daniel Levin Becker, Many Subtle Channels.
Utopic Impurity: Tom Eyers, Post-Rationalism.
Significant Insignificance: Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing.
Terror and Beauty: Martin Hagglund, Dying for Time.
A Way of Life that Withdraws from Life: Peter Sloterdijk, The Art of Philosophy.
Voices for the Voiceless: Jacques Ranciere, Mute Speech and Staging the People.
Philosophical Myths and Memories: Peter E. Gordon, Continental Divide.
Strategies of Sense-Making: Martin Woessner, Heidegger in America.
Belief from Non-Belief: Simon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless.
No More Great Ideas: Mark M. Freed, Robert Musil and the NonModern.
Reading Like a Loser: Malcolm Bull, Anti-Nietzsche.
The World's Disappearance: Cathy Carnth, Literature in tlie Ashes of History.
Steep Turns, Surprising Vistas: D.N. Rodowick, Elegy for Theory.