After Postmodernism (eBook, PDF)

The New American Fiction
Redaktion: K. Coffman, Christopher; Savvas, Theophilus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000289015
• Artikelnr.: 60685349

Autorenporträt

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