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American postmodernist fiction and the past

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	American postmodernist fiction and the past/ Theophilus Savvas.
Author:	Savvas, Theophilus,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : c2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (224 p.)
Subject:	Postmodernism (Literature) - United States. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230307780
ISBN:	9780230307780 (electronic bk.)

American postmodernist fiction and the past
Savvas, Theophilus,1982-

American postmodernist fiction and the past[electronic resource] /Theophilus Savvas. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,c2011. - 1 online resource (224 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Nothing but words': Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning -- 'A world inside the world': Don DeLillo's Libra and Latent History -- Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History -- 'A long list of regrettable actions': William T. Vollmann's Symbolic History -- 'There is only narrative': E.L. Doctorow -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past offers a new way of thinking about how history and the past function in postmodernist fiction of America. Providing close-readings of key texts by Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, William T. Vollmann and E.L. Doctorow, the book traces the development of the postmodernist historical novel, and outlines both the commonalities and the differences in the ways in which these writers utilise the past in their fiction. In so doing, the book not only challenges received assumptions on the relationship between postmodernism and history, but also considers the reasons for the waning influence of postmodernism in contemporary American literature.

ISBN: 9780230307780 (electronic bk.)

Source: 504493Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

214044
Postmodernism (Literature)
--United States.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS374.P64 / S28 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.08109054

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