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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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Tác giả chính: Grausam, Daniel, 1975-
Tác giả của công ty: ebrary, Inc
Định dạng: Điện tử eBook
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Những chủ đề:
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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Mục lục:
  • 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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