This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporaryAmerican literature's scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary.
This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporaryAmerican literature's scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary.
Christopher K. Coffman is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Boston University, MA, USA. He is the author of Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature (2019) and co-editor of William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion (2015). Theophilus Savvas is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past (2011).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: American fiction after postmodernism Theophilus Savvas and Christopher K. Coffman 1. Vegetarianism in the Anthropocene: Richard Powers and Jonathan Franzen Theophilus Savvas 2. The genrefication of contemporary American fiction Alexander Moran 3. Feverish fictions: William T. Vollmann and American literary history after postmodernism Christopher K. Coffman 4. Metaffective fiction: structuring feeling in post-postmodern American literature Ralph Clare 5. Entropology and the end of nature in Lance Olsen's Theories of Forgetting Alison Gibbons 6. Typical Eggers: transnationalism and America in Dave Eggers's 'globally-minded' fiction Bran Nicol 7. Making it long: men, women, and the great American novel now Kasia Boddy
Introduction: American fiction after postmodernism Theophilus Savvas and Christopher K. Coffman 1. Vegetarianism in the Anthropocene: Richard Powers and Jonathan Franzen Theophilus Savvas 2. The genrefication of contemporary American fiction Alexander Moran 3. Feverish fictions: William T. Vollmann and American literary history after postmodernism Christopher K. Coffman 4. Metaffective fiction: structuring feeling in post-postmodern American literature Ralph Clare 5. Entropology and the end of nature in Lance Olsen's Theories of Forgetting Alison Gibbons 6. Typical Eggers: transnationalism and America in Dave Eggers's 'globally-minded' fiction Bran Nicol 7. Making it long: men, women, and the great American novel now Kasia Boddy
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