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Author: Gordon Slethaug
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780809318414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Hawkline Monster, Brautigan's minimalist metafictive parody of the double depicts our narcissistic view of reality. In Double or Nothing, Federman subverts the conventional double, exposing its gamelike structures and traditional views of life and text.
Author: Paula Geyh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1108179444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew 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.
Author: Paula Geyh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1107103444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.
Author: Jaroslav Kušnír
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 3838255143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJaroslav Kušnír’s book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction is a sequel to his previous study on American postmodern fiction entitled Poetika americkej postmodernej prózy: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme [Poetics of American Fiction: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme]. Prešov: Impreso, 2001. It explores various aspects of American postmodernist fiction as manifested in the works by Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme and other American postmodernist authors such as Robert Coover, E. L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster. Analyzing various short stories and novels, the author shows differences between modernist and postmodernist literature in the works of Donald Barthelme; the way postmodern parodies of popular literary genres give a critique of some aspects of American cultural identity and experience (the American Dream, individualism, consumerism); and he also shows different ways postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster create metafictional effect as one of the most significant aspects of postmodern literature.
Author: C. Kocela
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-09-10
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0230109985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century.
Author: W. Lawrence Hogue
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0252033833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRedefining postmodern American literature to include the voices of women and nonwhite writers
Author: Bran Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-10-08
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0521861578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.
Author: Marilyn Maxwell
Publisher: Upa
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn four chapters, each dedicated to an experimental American novelist of the postmodern period, Male Rage Female Fury investigates what happens when novels that have defied traditional literary conventions such as temporal chronology, refuse to break with traditional gender-based stereotypes. The result, Maxwell argues, is an ambiguity or "internal tension" that may eventually produce more misogynistic images within the texts. Central to the study is an analysis of the violence, male and female initiated, in the works of the minimalists Barthelme and Didion, and the mythicists Pynchon and Morrison.
Author: Charles Peek
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-06-30
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0313059659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFaulkner scholarship is one of the largest critical enterprises currently at work. Because of its size and scope, accessing that scholarship has become difficult for scholars, students, and general readers alike. This reference includes chapters on individual approaches to Faulkner studies, including archetypal, historical, biographical, feminist, and psychological criticism, among others. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and surveys the contributions of that approach to Faulkner scholarship. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography and glossary of critical terms. William Faulkner is one of the most widely read and studied American writers. His works have also generated a vast body of scholarship and elicited criticism from a wide range of approaches. Because of its size, scope, and diversity, accessing that scholarship has become difficult for scholars, students, and general readers alike. This reference comprehensively overviews the present state of Faulkner studies. The volume includes chapters written by expert contributors. Each chapter defines a particular critical approach and surveys the contributions of that approach to Faulkner studies. Some of the approaches covered are archetypal, biographical, feminist, historical, and psychological, among others. The book closes with a selected, general bibliography and glossary of critical terms.
Author: Gerhard Hoffmann
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 750
ISBN-13: 9401202427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis systemic study discusses in its historical, cultural and aesthetic context the postmodern American novel between the years of 1960 and 1980. A general overview of the various definitions of postmodernism in philosophy, cultural theory and aesthetics provides the framework for the inquiry into more specific problems, such as: the broadening of aesthetics, the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, the transformation of the artistic tradition, the interdependence between modernism and postmodernism, and the change in the aesthetics of fiction. Other topics addressed here include: situationalism, montage, the ordinary and the fantastic, the subject and the character, the imagination, comic modes, and the future of the postmodern strategies. The authors whose fiction is treated in some detail under the various aspects thematized are John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Raymond Federman, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, Jerzy Kosinski, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Ronald Sukenick, and Kurt Vonnegut.
