Title The dialectic of self and story : reading and storytelling in contemporary American fiction / Robert Durante

Published New York : Routledge, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (116 pages) Series Literary criticism and cultural theory : The interaction of text and society Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents 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 Fiction Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-111) and index 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction Books and reading in literature Narration (Rhetoric) Postmodernism (Literature) Realism in literature Self in literature Social problems in literature Storytelling in literature Erzähltechnik Interpretation Prosa Geschichte 1980-2000. United States USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135713379 1135713375

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