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""A serious and important work, Mode of Address makes two immediate interventions into the field of postmodern literature. First, it overturns the almost axiomatic view that postmodernism represents a rejection of modernist autonomy in favor of a notion of the open text. Rather, the problems of modernism persist into the postmodern period, becoming the grounds out of which postmodernism produces its own aesthetic solutions. At the same time, the book challenges readings of postmodern literature and poststructuralist theory as more or less homologous. While these two forms of discourse attend to the same issue—the relationship of the epistemological work of reading to the ontological structure of the work of art—they come at it in distinct ways. What makes the argument especially compelling is its attention to textual detail and to the shifting relations among reader, text, and author."" — Paul Stasi, editor of Realism and the Novel: A Global History

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Davis Smith-Brecheisen is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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