Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of a return to realism, it also evidences recurring themes of postmodernism, such as alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self-reflexiveness.
Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of a return to realism, it also evidences recurring themes of postmodernism, such as alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self-reflexiveness.
Table of Contents: I. Introduction: The Fiction in the Story and the Story in the Fiction II. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Postmodern Text III. Toward Transcendence: Reading and Writing in Raymond Carver's Fiction IV. Reading the Landscape: Richard Ford's New Realism V. Beyond Ethnicity: Realism and Postmodernism in Louise Eldrich's Novels VI. Reading and Storytelling in Selected Fiction of the Vietnam War VII. Epilogue: An Extended Map Reading of Contemporary American Fiction VIII. Works Cited
Table of Contents: I. Introduction: The Fiction in the Story and the Story in the Fiction II. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Postmodern Text III. Toward Transcendence: Reading and Writing in Raymond Carver's Fiction IV. Reading the Landscape: Richard Ford's New Realism V. Beyond Ethnicity: Realism and Postmodernism in Louise Eldrich's Novels VI. Reading and Storytelling in Selected Fiction of the Vietnam War VII. Epilogue: An Extended Map Reading of Contemporary American Fiction VIII. Works Cited
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