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American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past

Name: American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past
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Author: Savvas, Theophilus
ISBN: 9780230298347

by Savvas, Theophilus

ISBN13:
9780230298347
ISBN10:
0230298346
eBook ISBN(s):
9780230307780
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2011-12-15
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

THEOPHILUS SAVVAS teaches in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK.

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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