The Dialectic of Self and Story: Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction

The Dialectic of Self and Story: Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of a return to realism, it also evidences recurring themes of postmodernism, such as alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self-reflexiveness.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781138967625
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
DEWEY: 813.5409113
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 453g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 7mm