On Endings : American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War /

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What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold W...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Grausam, Daniel, 1975-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Powers, Richard, > 1957- > Criticism and interpretation.
Pynchon, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation.
Barth, John, > 1930- > Criticism and interpretation.
Cold War in literature.
Cold War > Influence.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
American fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: On endings
  • Institutionalizing postmodernism: John Barth and modern war
  • The Crying of Lot 49, circa 1642; or, Pynchon, periodicity, and total war
  • The time of the nation, the time of the state
  • Unthinking the thinkability of the unthinkable
  • Trying to understand end zone
  • The dominant tense: Richard Powers and late postmodernism
  • Afterword: Critical conventions/postmodern canons.

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