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Postmortem postmodernists : the afterlife of the author in recent narrative / Laura E. Savu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savu, Laura E., 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Authors in literature.
- Literary form--History.
- Literary form.
- Biography as a literary form.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Modernism (Aesthetics)--United States.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- How literature is lived through: touching reading and Geoff Dyer's "Sheer rage"
- Writing in the margins of an "endless novel"
- Testamentary fictions: revisiting Peter Ackroyd's The last testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton
- The "crooked business" of storytelling: the ethics of authorship and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
- The buried life: distancing and displacement in Colm Tóibín's The master
- Stories within stories: Virginia Woolf among other artists
- Epilogue: the sense of a beginning, or the future past of postmodernism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780838641811
- 0838641814
- OCLC:
- 230802004
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