Bran Nicol

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780521861571
• ISBN-10: 0521861578
• Artikelnr.: 26527242

Autorenporträt

Bran Nicol is a Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Portsmouth.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: reading postmodern fiction
1. Postmodern fiction: theory and practice
2. Early postmodern fiction: Beckett, Borges, and Burroughs
3. 1960s and 1970s US metafiction: Coover, Barth, Nabokov, Vonnegut, Pynchon
4. The postmodern historical novel: Fowles, Barnes, Swift
5. Postmodern-postcolonial fiction
6. Postmodern fiction by women: Carter, Atwood, Acker
7. Two postmodern genres: cyberpunk and 'metaphysical' detective fiction
8. Fiction of the 'postmodern condition': Ballard, DeLillo, Ellis
Bibliography
Index.

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Preface: reading postmodern fiction; 1. Postmodern fiction: theory and practice; 2. Early postmodern fiction: Beckett, Borges, and Burroughs; 3. 1960s and 1970s US metafiction: Coover, Barth, Nabokov, Vonnegut, Pynchon; 4. The postmodern historical novel: Fowles, Barnes, Swift; 5. Postmodern-postcolonial fiction; 6. Postmodern fiction by women: Carter, Atwood, Acker; 7. Two postmodern genres: cyberpunk and 'metaphysical' detective fiction; 8. Fiction of the 'postmodern condition': Ballard, DeLillo, Ellis; Bibliography; Index.

Rezensionen

'Nicol's continuously readable Introduction is a valuable work of reference and one which many students will find helpful.' Notes and Queries