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"The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the r...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge introductions to American literature
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| Summary: |
"The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading, understanding, a nd appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day."--Book cover |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 170 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-161) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138746657 (paperback) : 1138746657 (paperback) 9781138746626 (hardback) 1138746622 (hardback) |
| CLC: | I712.065 |
| Call Number: | I712.065/W134-2 |
| Contents: | The origins of the American postmodern- Barth, Gass, Barthelme -- The books that shaped directions- Coover, Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace -- Other dominant authors -- Postmodernism in generations -- Morrison, Doctorow, Kingston, and Chabon -- The fusion of genres in modernism and postmodernism -- "9/11" as insistent game-changer -- Postmodern writers in the twenty-first century. |