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.
Author(s): Paula Geyh
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 244
City: Cambridge
03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
04.0_pp_v_vi_Contents
05.0_pp_vii_vii_Contributors
06.0_pp_viii_xviii_Chronology
introduction
postmodern-precursors
prolonged-periodization-american-fiction-after-1960
postmodern-american-fiction-and-global-literature
philosophical-skepticism-and-narrative-incredulity-postmodern-th
history-and-fiction
gender-and-sexuality-postmodern-constructions
pluralism-and-postmodernism-the-histories-and-geographies-of-eth
the-zombie-in-the-mirror-postmodernism-and-subjectivity-in-scien
postmodern-styles-language-reflexivity-and-pastiche
between-word-and-image-the-textual-and-the-visual-in-postmodern-
electronic-fictions-television-the-internet-and-the-future-of-di
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