The Dialectic of Self and Story

Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-96762-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 198 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of a return to realism, it also evidences recurring themes of postmodernism, such as alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self-reflexiveness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Durante, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents: I. Introduction: The Fiction in the Story and the Story in the Fiction II. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Postmodern Text III. Toward Transcendence: Reading and Writing in Raymond Carver's Fiction IV. Reading the Landscape: Richard Ford's New Realism V. Beyond Ethnicity: Realism and Postmodernism in Louise Eldrich's Novels VI. Reading and Storytelling in Selected Fiction of the Vietnam War VII. Epilogue: An Extended Map Reading of Contemporary American Fiction VIII. Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Durante