Philipp Löffler

Pluralist Desires

Contemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

Excavates the contemporary revival of 19th-century cultural pluralism, revealing how American novelists since the 1990s have appropriated the historical novel in the pursuit of selfhood rather than truth, fundamentally repositioning the genre in American culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781571139528
• ISBN-10: 1571139524
• Artikelnr.: 42748279

Autorenporträt

Philipp Löffler

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Saving Private Ryan, the End of the Cold War, and the Value
of Historical Experience The Uses of History: From Nineteenth-Century
Historicism to Twenty-First-Century Pluralism "No Longer and Not Yet": Don
DeLillo and the Aftermath of the Cold War After Race: Body Language and
Historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy "A Singular Act of
Invention": Storytelling, Pluralism, and Philip Roth's American Trilogy
Lukácsian Aesthetics, Self-Creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the Dark
Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index