The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction

Herausgeber: Geyh, Paula

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781107502772
• ISBN-10: 1107502772
• Artikelnr.: 47722108

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Paula Geyh; 1. Postmodern precursors Jonathan P. Eburne; 2.
Prolonged periodization: American fiction after 1960 David Cowart; 3.
Postmodern American fiction and global literature Caren Irr; 4.
Philosophical skepticism and narrative incredulity: postmodern theory and
postmodern American fiction Arkady Plotnitsky; 5. History and fiction
Timothy Parrish; 6. Gender and sexuality: postmodern constructions Sally
Robinson; 7. Pluralism and postmodernism: the histories and geographies of
ethnic American literature Dean Franco; 8. The zombie in the mirror:
postmodernism and subjectivity in science fiction Elana Gomel; 9.
Postmodern styles: language, reflexivity, and pastiche Patrick O'Donnell;
10. Between word and image: the textual and the visual in postmodern
American fiction Paula Geyh; 11. Electronic fictions: television, the
internet, and the future of digital fiction Astrid Ensslin.