The Cambridge companion to postmodern American fiction / edited by Paula Geyh.
Geyh, Paula, editor, author.
2017
PS374.P64 C36 2017 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to postmodern American fiction / edited by Paula Geyh.
ISBN 9781107103443 (hardcover)
1107103444 (hardcover)
9781107502772 (paperback)
1107502772 (paperback)
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Language English
Description xviii, 221 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number PS374.P64 C36 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.5409
Summary "Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this remarkable period. It traces the development of postmodern American fiction over the past half-century and explores its key aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. It examines its principal styles and genres, from the early experiments with metafiction to the most recent developments, such as the graphic novel and digital fiction, and offers concise, compelling readings of many of its major works. An indispensable resource for students, scholars, and the general reader, the Companion both highlights the extraordinary achievements of postmodern American fiction and provides illuminating critical frameworks for understanding it"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Geyh, Paula, editor, author.
Series Cambridge companions to topics.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Introduction / Paula Geyh
Postmodern precursors / Jonathan P. Eburne
Prolonged periodization : American fiction after 1960 / David Cowart
Postmodern American fiction and global literature / Caren Irr
Philosophical skepticism and narrative incredulity : postmodern theory and postmodern American fiction / Arkady Plotnitsky
History and fiction / Timothy Parrish
Gender and sexuality : postmodern constructions / Sally Robinson
Pluralism and postmodernism : the histories and geographies of ethnic American literature / Dean Franco
The zombie in the mirror : postmodernism and subjectivity in science fiction / Elana Gomel
Postmodern styles : language, reflexivity, and pastiche / Patrick O'Donnell
Between word and image : the textual and the visual in postmodern American fiction / Paula Geyh
Electronic fictions : television, the Internet, and the future of digital fiction / Astrid Ensslin.

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