Robert Durante

The Dialectic of Self and Story (eBook, PDF)

Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135713300
• Artikelnr.: 40343725

Autorenporträt

Robert Durante

Inhaltsangabe

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