American literature in transition 1990-2000 1990-2000 / edited by Stephen J. Burn (University of Glasgow)
"Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight hours by launching elegies for t...
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Cambridge, New York, Port Melbourne, Delhi, Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating inherited forms, by adopting and adapting emerging technologies to narrative ends, and by finding new voices that had remained outside that canon for too long. By reading 1990s literature in a sequence of shifting contexts - from independent presses to the AIDs crisis; from angelology to virtual reality - American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000 provides the fullest map yet of the changing shape of a rich and diverse decade's literary production. It offers new perspectives on the period's well-known landmarks, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, but also overdue recognition to writers such as Ana Castillo, Evan Dara, Steve Erickson, and Carole Maso"-- Machine generated contents note: Part I. End times: 1. American literature and the Millennium Jeremy Green; 2. Angels, ghosts and post secular visions Brian McHale; 3. Aging novelists and the end of the American century Marshall Boswell; 4. Violence Sean Grattan; 5. The end of the book David Ciccoricco; 6. The end of postmodernism Ralph Clare; Part II. Forms: 7. Enclyclopedic fictions Stephen J. Burn; 8. Historical fiction John N. Duvall; 9. Lyrical thinking in poetry of the '90s Thomas Gardner; 10. Story-cycles Paul March-Russell; 11. Materiality in the late age of print Mary K. Holland; 12. Manifestos Rachel Greenwalk Smith; 13. Revisionary strategies Christian Moraru; Part III. Interconnectivity: 14. Borders and mixed race fictions Aliki Varvogli; 15. Globalization Paul Giles; 16. The two cultures Novel Jon Adams; 17. Ecosystem Heather Houser; 18. Virtual reality Joseph Conte; Part IV. Public and Private Life: 19. Trauma Patrick O'Donnell; 20. Family Kasia Boddy; 21. Aids Lesley Larkin; Part V. Institutions: 22. The university 'after' theory Daniel Punday; 23. Independent presses Jeffrey R. Dileo |
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| Beschreibung: | ix, 386 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781107136014 978-1-107-13601-4 |