Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction /

"For too long, postmodernism has been described by easy generalizations--relativist, indeterminate, commercialized--that have rendered the term nearly worthless. Punday applies a more nuanced understanding of fictionality to a variety of contemporary narrative forms that occupy different locati...

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1. Verfasser: Punday, Daniel
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2010]
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Myth and the institutional construction of postmodernism in The Friday book
  • Folk culture, the archive, and the work of the imaginary
  • Fiction, fraud, and fakes
  • Style and symptom in postmodern science fiction
  • Role playing games, possible world theory, and the fictionality of assemblage
  • Institutional sutures in electronic writing
  • Fictionality in the public sphere.