Robert Durante

The Dialectic of Self and Story

Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780815337591
• ISBN-10: 0815337590
• Artikelnr.: 21577797

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