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On endings American postmodern fiction and the Cold War /

What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold W...

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Autor Principal: Grausam, Daniel, 1975-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Barth, John, > 1930- > Criticism and interpretation.
Pynchon, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation.
Powers, Richard, > 1957- > Criticism and interpretation.
American fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Cold War > Influence.
Cold War in literature.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On endings
  • Institutionalizing postmodernism: John Barth and modern war
  • The Crying of Lot 49, circa 1642; or, Pynchon, periodicity, and total war
  • The time of the nation, the time of the state
  • Unthinking the thinkability of the unthinkable
  • Trying to understand end zone
  • The dominant tense: Richard Powers and late postmodernism
  • Afterword: Critical conventions/postmodern canons.

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