LEADER 03642nam 22007091 450 001 9910969046503321 005 20121220113130.0 010 $a9781441135933 010 $a1441135936 010 $a9781472543394 010 $a1472543394 010 $a9781441173744 010 $a1441173749 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472543394 035 $a(CKB)2670000000388370 035 $a(EBL)1224223 035 $a(OCoLC)852757960 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000915284 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12402073 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000915284 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10865396 035 $a(PQKB)11060213 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1224223 035 $a(OCoLC)852150954 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09258388 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9781472543394BC 035 $a(Perlego)868948 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000388370 100 $a20150326d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican fiction in transition $eobserver-hero narrative, the 1990s, and postmodernism /$fAdam Kelly 210 1$aNew York ;$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781628925302 311 08$a1628925302 311 08$a9781441112859 311 08$a1441112855 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. The 1990s, the Postmodern Subject, and the Problem of Agency -- 2. Observer-Hero Narrative and American Literary History -- 3. Tragedy, Secrecy, Narration: Philip Roth's The Human Stain -- 4. Action and Testimony: Paul Auster's Leviathan -- 5. Narcissism and Explanation: Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides -- 6. Ethics and Justification: E. L. Doctorow's The Waterworks -- 7. Conclusion: Agency, the Reader, and the Post-Postmodern -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero's life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPoint of view (Literature) 606 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $2Literary studies: general 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory 615 0$aPoint of view (Literature) 615 0$aPostmodernism (Literature) 676 $a813/.540923 700 $aKelly$b Adam$01865931 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969046503321 996 $aAmerican fiction in transition$94473168 997 $aUNINA