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Federman's fictions innovation, theory, and the Holocaust /

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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Conspiracy and paranoia in contemporary American fiction the works of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy / by Hantke, Steffen, 1962-

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On endings American postmodern fiction and the Cold War / by Grausam, Daniel, 1975-

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Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassination : Recent Poetry and Fiction /

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Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassination : Recent Poetry and Fiction /

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A trauma artist Tim O'Brien and the fiction of Vietnam / by Heberle, Mark A.

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A self-conscious art Patrick Modiano's postmodern fictions / by Kawakami, Akane

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Philip Roth's postmodern American romance critical essays on selected works / by Statlander, Jane, 1954-

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Kurt Vonnegut's crusade or, How a postmodern harlequin preached a new kind of humanism / by Davis, Todd F., 1965-

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Perspectives on Barry Hannah

Table of Contents: “…Lee -- Heroism and the changing face of American manhood in Barry Hannah's fiction / Thomas Ærvold Bjerre -- The shade of Faulkner's horse : cavalier heroism and archetypal immortality in Barry Hannah's postmodern South / James B. …”
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Irritable bodies and postmodern subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi by Mobili, Giorgio, 1973-

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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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The postmodern humanism of Philip K. Dick by Vest, Jason P., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The world Dick made: science fiction, humanism, and postmodern literature -- The metamorphosis of science fiction: Kafka, Dick, and postmodern humanism -- Parallel minds, alternate worlds: Borges, Dick, and the politics of oppression -- Divine textualities: Calvino, Dick, and authoring creation -- Time, love, and narcosis: the importance of now wait for last year -- Conclusion. …”
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John Irving and cultural mourning by Belgaid, Bouchra, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Postmodernism or the literature of exhaustion -- The sixties: years of throwing off inhibitions -- Irving's family romances -- Irving and narcissism -- Mourning and grief in Irving's fiction -- Epilogue. The fourth hand and groping toward self-redemption.…”
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Faulkner and postmodernism Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1999 /

Table of Contents: “…: the production and reception of Faulkner's fictional world / Martin Kreiswirth -- Postvomiting : Pylon and the Faulknerian spew / Joseph R. …”
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