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On endings American postmodern fiction and the Cold War /

Main Author: Grausam, Daniel, 1975-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Barth, John, > 1930- > Criticism and interpretation.
Pynchon, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation.
Powers, Richard, > 1957- > Criticism and interpretation.
American fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Cold War > Influence.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10554873
Table of Contents:
  • 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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