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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552776803321

Autore

Punday Daniel

Titolo

Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / / Daniel Punday

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2014

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015

©2014

ISBN

0-8142-8068-4

0-8142-7131-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Transoceanic studies

Disciplina

813/.5409

Soggetti

Postmodernism (Literature)

Fiction

Fiction - History and criticism

Postmodernism (Literature) - United States

American fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Myth and the institutional construction of postmodernism in The Friday book -- Folk culture, the archive, and the work of the imaginary -- Fiction, fraud, and fakes -- Style and symptom in postmodern science fiction -- Role playing games, possible world theory, and the fictionality of assemblage -- Institutional sutures in electronic writing -- Fictionality in the public sphere.