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Late Postmodernism : American Fiction at the Millennium / by J. Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Jeremy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- America--Literatures.
- America.
- Fiction.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Postmodernism.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- North American Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Post-Modern Philosophy.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- North American Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Post-Modern Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2005.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Late Postmodernism and the Literary Field; 2 The Novel and the Death of Literature; 3 Jonathan Franzen, Oprah Winfrey, and the Future of the Social Novel; 4 Late Postmodernism and Cultural Memory; 5 Pathologies of the Public Sphere; 6 Late Postmodernism and the Utopian Imagination; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611368562
- 9781281368560
- 1281368563
- 9781403980403
- 1403980403
- OCLC:
- 560470093
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