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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453162903321

Autore

Durante Robert

Titolo

The dialectic of self and story : reading and storytelling in contemporary American fiction / / Robert Durante

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-96762-9

1-315-05434-5

1-135-71330-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (127 p.)

Collana

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory : the Interaction of Text and Society

Disciplina

813/.5409113

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Postmodernism (Literature) - United States

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century

Books and reading in literature

Social problems in literature

Storytelling in literature

Realism in literature

Self in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2001 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory The Interaction of Text and Society; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 Erdrich's Novels; VI Reading and Storytelling in Selected Fiction of the Vietnam War

VII Epilogue: An Extended Map Reading of Contemporary American FictionVIII Works Cited; IX Index



Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.