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American Fiction in Transition Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism 1st Edition

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American Fiction in Transition Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism 1st Edition

Author(s)

Adam Kelly

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781441173744, 9781628925302, 9781441112859, 9781472543394

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

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PDF and EPUB

Description

American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero’s life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture.

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American Fiction in Transition Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism 1st Edition

SKU: 9781441135933

Original price was: $46.75.Current price is: $14.03.

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Additional information

Full Title

American Fiction in Transition Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism 1st Edition

Author(s)

Adam Kelly

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781441135933, 9781628925302, 9781441112859, 9781472543394

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero’s life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture.