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American postmodernist fiction and the past / Theophilus Savvas.
Van Pelt Library PS374.P64 S28 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savvas, Theophilus, 1982-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- United States.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and history.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 213 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Contents:
- 'Nothing but words': Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning
- 'A world inside the world': Don DeLillo's Libra and Latent History
- Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History
- 'A long list of regrettable actions': William T. Vollmann's Symbolic History
- 'There is only narrative': E.L. Doctorow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230298347
- 0230298346
- OCLC:
- 703871154
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