UID:
almafu_9959695944902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xviii, 221 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-108-17878-2
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1-108-18032-9
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1-316-21651-9
Serie:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jul 2017).
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Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 Postmodern Precursors -- 2 Prolonged Periodization: American Fiction After 1960 -- 3 Postmodern American Fiction and Global Literature -- 4 Philosophical Skepticism and Narrative Incredulity: Postmodern Theory and Postmodern American Fiction -- 5 History and Fiction -- 6 Gender and Sexuality: Postmodern Constructions -- 7 Pluralism and Postmodernism: The Histories and Geographies of Ethnic American Literature -- 8 The Zombie in the Mirror: Postmodernism and Subjectivity in Science Fiction -- 9 Postmodern Styles: Language, Reflexivity, and Pastiche -- 10 Between Word and Image: The Textual and the Visual in Postmodern American Fiction -- 11 Electronic Fictions: Television, the Internet, and the Future of Digital Fiction -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-10344-4
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-50277-2
Sprache:
Englisch
