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After the end of history : American fiction in the 1990s / / Samuel Cohen



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Autore: Cohen Samuel S Visualizza persona
Titolo: After the end of history : American fiction in the 1990s / / Samuel Cohen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina: 813.5409
813/.5409
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The End of History; 1. After Enlightenment: Mason & Dixon and the Ampersand; 2. After the Fall: Roth and the 1960's; 3. After Identity: Morrison and Genealogy; 4. How to Tell a True Cold War Story: O'Brien, Didion, and Closure; 5. History Is What Heals: 9/11 and Narrative in Eugenides and Lethem; Afterword: DeLillo and the Anticipation of Retrospection; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Sommario/riassunto: In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990's novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Roth's American Pastoral, Morrison's Paradise, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted, Eugenides's Middlesex, Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, and DeLillo's Underworld. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is iro
Titolo autorizzato: After the end of history  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-890-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811676803321
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