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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466032203321

Autore

Wilkens Matthew <1974->

Titolo

Revolution : the event in postwar fiction / / Matthew Wilkens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4214-2088-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Disciplina

813/.5409

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The structure of literary revolutions -- Allegory -- Event -- The encyclopedia as object and metaphor -- Failure and novelty in postwar fiction -- Allegory, encyclopedism, and postwar america -- Ellison's impure manifesto -- Integration and disorder in The golden notebook.