LEADER 03080nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910461692403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-49062-4 010 $a9786613585851 010 $a0-8139-3166-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000176392 035 $a(OCoLC)785928180 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10554873 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606558 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11372164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606558 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581347 035 $a(PQKB)10925801 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444008 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4030 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444008 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10554873 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358585 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000176392 100 $a20110308d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn endings$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican postmodern fiction and the Cold War /$fDaniel Grausam 210 $aCharlottesville $cUniversity of Virginia Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (206 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8139-3162-2 311 $a0-8139-3161-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: On endings -- Institutionalizing postmodernism: John Barth and modern war -- The Crying of Lot 49, circa 1642; or, Pynchon, periodicity, and total war -- The time of the nation, the time of the state -- Unthinking the thinkability of the unthinkable -- Trying to understand end zone -- The dominant tense: Richard Powers and late postmodernism -- Afterword: Critical conventions/postmodern canons. 330 $aWhat does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aCold War$xInfluence 606 $aCold War in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aPostmodernism (Literature) 615 0$aCold War$xInfluence. 615 0$aCold War in literature. 676 $a813/.5409 700 $aGrausam$b Daniel$f1975-$0950788 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461692403321 996 $aOn endings$92149628 997 $aUNINA