Pluralist desires : contemporary historical fiction and the end of the Cold War /

In 'Pluralist Desires', Philipp Loffler explores the contemporary historical novel in conjunction with three cultural shifts that have crucially affected political and intellectual life in the United States during the 1990s and 2000s: the end of the Cold War, the decline of postmodernism,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Löffler, Philipp, 1981-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2015.
Series:European studies in North American literature and culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Cold War in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Guerre froide dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
American literature
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
Historical fiction, American
National characteristics, American, in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Saving Private Ryan, the End of the Cold War, and the Value of Historical Experience; 1: The Uses of History: From Nineteenth-Century Historicism to Twenty-First-Century Pluralism; 2: "No Longer and Not Yet": Don DeLillo and the Aftermath of the Cold War; 3: After Race: Body Language and Historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy; 4: "A Singular Act of Invention": Storytelling, Pluralism, and Philip Roth's American Trilogy; 5: Lukácsian Aesthetics, Self-Creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the Dark; Epilogue; Notes.

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