Title The Dialectic of Self and Story : Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (127 pages) Series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents Cover; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory The Interaction of Text and Society; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; I Introduction: The Fiction in the Story and the Story in the Fiction; II The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Postmodern Text; III Toward Transcendence: Reading and Writing in Raymond Carver's Fiction; IV Reading the Landscape: Richard Ford's New Realism; V Beyond Ethnicity: Realism and Postmodernism in Louise Erdrich's Novels; VI Reading and Storytelling in Selected Fiction of the Vietnam War VII Epilogue: An Extended Map Reading of Contemporary American FictionVIII Works Cited; IX Index Summary First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century Books and reading in literature. Social problems in literature. Storytelling in literature. Realism in literature. Self in literature. American fiction Books and reading in literature Narration (Rhetoric) Postmodernism (Literature) Realism in literature Self in literature Social problems in literature Storytelling in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135713300 1135713308

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