From the Civil War to the apocalypse : postmodern history and American fiction /

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"Recent postmodern theorists have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction ... In addressing the postmodernist claim that history works no differently than fiction, Timothy Parrish rejects the implication that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parrish, Timothy, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
Temas:
Pynchon, Thomas.
Didion, Joan.
Faulkner, William.
McCarthy, Cormac.
Morrison, Toni.
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
History in literature.
Literature and history > United States > History > 20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
Littérature et histoire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Histoire dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
American literature.
Literature and history.
Postmoderne
Roman.
United States.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Absalom, Absalom!: Faulkner's true history of the South
  • Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian : the first and last book of America
  • Off Faulkner's plantation : Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon
  • Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : drawing a line in the sands of history
  • History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan : Joan Didion's Democracy and Don Delillo's Underworld
  • Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro: postcolonial America.

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