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After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction
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Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies
ISBN13: 9780367640118
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 25 2023
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Several of American literature's most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the last quarter century has turned away from the tendencies of postmodernist writing. Yet, the nature of that turn, and the defining qualities of American fiction after postmodernism, remain less than clear.
This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporary scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary. Readings of works by various leading figures, including Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes, Lance Olsen, Richard Powers, William T. Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace, support a variety of arguments about this recent revitalization of American literature.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice.
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