The Post-Modern aura : the act of fiction in an age of inflation
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The Post-Modern aura : the act of fiction in an age of inflation
Northwestern University Press, 1985
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"An earlier version of this text appeared in Salmagundi, vol. 63-64, 1984"--T.p. verso
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ISBN 9780810106680
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"Inflation affects literary occupations and preoccupations quite as much as it does financial scrip." Starting from this premise, Charles Newman ventures forth on an irreverent, wide-ranging discussion of the "Post-Modern" attitude in fiction, culture, and sensibility. Newman questions the "revolutionary" claims of avant-garde novelists and literary theorists, but he is no less critical of the arguments of neoconservatives, neorealists, and advocates of "moral fiction." Newman argues that neither of these groups has confronted the unprecedented break with tradition entailed by an economics and culture of inflation. A combination of cultural critique, literary criticism, economic forecast, and historical jeremiad, The Post-Modern Aura is finally a positive statement, celebrating "The Act of Fiction" and suggesting how the forces which have been devaluing it might be overcome.
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: pbk ISBN 9780810106697
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Inflation affects literary occupations and preoccupations quite as much as it does financial scrip. Starting from this premise, Charles Newman ventures forth on an irreverent, wide-ranging discussion of the Post-Modern attitude in fiction, culture, and sensibility. Newman questions the revolutionary claims of avant-garde novelists and literary theorists, but he is no less critical of the arguments of neoconservatives, neorealists, and advocates of moral fiction. Newman argues that neither of these groups has confronted the unprecedented break with tradition entailed by an economics and culture of inflation. A combination of cultural critique, literary criticism, economic forecast, and historical jeremiad, The Post-Modern Aura is finally a positive statement, celebrating The Act of Fiction and suggesting how the forces which have been devaluing it might be overcome.
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