Late Postmodernism American Fiction at the Millennium,9781403966322

Late Postmodernism American Fiction at the Millennium

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ISBN13: 9781403966322
ISBN10: 140396632X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-05-13
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority, and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade--including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen, and Richard Powers--Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in the culture.

Author Biography

Born in England, Jeremy Green is at present an Associate Professor in the English Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. His essays and reviews on contemporary American and British literature have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Chicago Review, Essays and Studies and other journals.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(18)
Late Postmodernism and the Literary Field
19(26)
The Novel and the Death of Literature
45(34)
Jonathan Franzen, Oprah Winfrey, and the Future of the Social Novel
79(38)
Late Postmodernism and Cultural Memory
117(46)
Pathologies of the Public Sphere
163(22)
Late Postmodernism and the Utopian Imagination
185(26)
Epilogue 211(6)
Notes 217(16)
Bibliography 233(8)
Index 241

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