Ebook: The Dialectic of Self and Story : Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction
Author: Robert Durante
- Tags: American fiction - 20th century -
- Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
- City: CT, United Kingdom
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- epub
Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of a return to realism, it also evidences recurring themes of postmodernism, such as alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self-reflexiveness.
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