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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811174103321

Autore

Mullins Matthew

Titolo

Postmodernism in pieces : materializing the social in U.S. fiction / / Matthew Mullins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-061911-2

0-19-045952-2

0-19-045951-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

813.5409113

Soggetti

Postmodernism (Literature) - United States

American fiction - History and criticism

Social change in literature

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 state of things in postmodernism -- Reconstructing social construction -- Flattening nature and culture -- Rewriting language -- Collapsing otherness -- Afterism: The promise of postmodernism.

Sommario/riassunto

Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies, breaking postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembles it piece by piece in light of recent theoretical developments in Actor-Network-Theory, object-oriented philosophy, new materialism, and posthumanism.