Title American postmodernist fiction and the past / Theophilus Savvas

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Nothing but words': Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning -- 'A world inside the world': Don DeLillo's Libra and Latent History -- Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History -- 'A long list of regrettable actions': William T. Vollmann's Symbolic History -- 'There is only narrative': E.L. Doctorow -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Summary American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past offers a new way of thinking about how history and the past function in postmodernist fiction of America. Providing close-readings of key texts by Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, William T. Vollmann and E.L. Doctorow, the book traces the development of the postmodernist historical novel, and outlines both the commonalities and the differences in the ways in which these writers utilise the past in their fiction. In so doing, the book not only challenges received assumptions on the relationship between postmodernism and history, but also considers the reasons for the waning influence of postmodernism in contemporary American literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English -- USA. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- USA. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Literature. American fiction Literature and history Postmodernism (Literature) United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230307780 0230307787

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