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On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War / / Daniel Grausam



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Autore: Grausam Daniel <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War / / Daniel Grausam Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.5409
Soggetto topico: American fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Postmodernism (Literature) - United States
Cold War - Influence
Cold War in literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: What 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.
Titolo autorizzato: On endings  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49062-4
9786613585851
0-8139-3166-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910806135903321
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