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Revolution : the event in postwar fiction / Matthew Wilkens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkens, Matthew, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- While the imperatives of the postmodern eventually gave order to this chaos, Wilkens explains that the same forces are again at work in today's fracturing literary market.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The structure of literary revolutions
- Allegory
- Event
- The encyclopedia as object and metaphor
- Failure and novelty in postwar fiction
- Allegory, encyclopedism, and postwar america
- Ellison's impure manifesto
- Integration and disorder in The golden notebook.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2088-0
- OCLC:
- 956620744
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