The dialectic of self and story : reading and storytelling in contemporary American fiction / / Robert Durante

• Autore: Durante Robert
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (127 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.5409113
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature) - United States; Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century; Books and reading in literature; Social problems in literature; Storytelling in literature; Realism in literature; Self in literature
• Note generali: First published 2001 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory The Interaction of Text and Society; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; I Introduction: The Fiction in the Story and the Story in the Fiction; II The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Postmodern Text; III Toward Transcendence: Reading and Writing in Raymond Carver's Fiction; IV Reading the Landscape: Richard Ford's New Realism; V Beyond Ethnicity: Realism and Postmodernism in Louise Erdrich's Novels; VI Reading and Storytelling in Selected Fiction of the Vietnam War ; VII Epilogue: An Extended Map Reading of Contemporary American FictionVIII Works Cited; IX Index
• Sommario/riassunto: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
• Titolo autorizzato: The dialectic of self and story
• ISBN: 1-135-71337-5; 1-138-96762-9; 1-315-05434-5; 1-135-71330-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790987403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literary criticism and cultural theory.