Introduction:The Realist tradition 1. Shapes: Fiction-games people play 2. Ideas: Why play games? 3. Substance: Game pieces and moves 4. Shape versus substance: What are the stakes? Conclusion: The anti-Realist tradition
Biography
Cristopher Nash, BA English, UCLA. MA Romance Languages & Literature & PhD Comparative Literature, New York University. Phi Beta Kappa. Fulbright-Hays Fellow, France, 1965-67. Italian & English Studies (director), Graduate School of Comparative Literature (founder), University of Warwick, 1970-2007. World Postmodern Fiction; Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind; Narrative in Culture: Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy & Literature; The Dinosaurs Ball.
Reviews of the first publication:
“Nash’s study is very comprehensive, organized thematically, and impresses you with its erudition on almost every page. He deals with the questions without requiring the reader to learn a whole new terminology with which to impress friends at cocktail parties or awe graduate students.”
— J. Madison Davis, Pennsylvania State University—Behrend College
“Cristopher Nash plays a fascinating chess game of words. His epigram from Nabokov appropriates the intellectual moves a Grand Master in the linguistic gamesmanship of a literary theorist...”
— Margaret Yong, University of Malaya
