American postmodernist fiction and the past

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    • Savvas, Theophilus

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American postmodernist fiction and the past

Theophilus Savvas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Bibliography: p. 189-204

Includes index

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内容説明

Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the past in recent American fiction, outlines the development of the postmodernist historical novel and considers the waning influence of postmodernism in contemporary American literature.

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Acknowledgements Introduction 'Nothing but words': Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning 'A world inside the world': Don DeLillo's Libra and Latent History Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History 'A long list of regrettable actions': William T. Vollmann's Symbolic History 'There is only narrative': E.L. Doctorow Conclusion Bibliography Index

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