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On endings American postmodern fiction and the Cold War
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Title
On endings [electronic resource] : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War / Daniel Grausam.
ISBN
0813931665
9780813931661
0813931614
0813931622
9780813931616
9780813931623
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 196 p. )
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Summary
What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Literature Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index.
Contents
Introduction: On endings
Institutionalizing postmodernism: John Barth and modern war
The Crying of Lot 49, circa 1642; or, Pynchon, periodicity, and total war
The time of the nation, the time of the state
Unthinking the thinkability of the unthinkable
Trying to understand end zone
The dominant tense: Richard Powers and late postmodernism
Afterword: Critical conventions/postmodern canons.
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