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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrick O'Donnell |
| ISBN: | 9781405167574 1405167572 9781405167550 1405167556 |
| OCLC Number: | 429227179 |
| Description: | xi, 234 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I: Before 1980 -- Part II: From New Realisms to Postmodernism -- This American Life -- Dirty Realisms -- Only Wor(l)ds -- Magnifying Reality, Multiplying Genre -- Part III: Becoming Identities -- Reinventing Character -- Racing Identity -- Engendering Narrative -- Toward the Posthuman -- Part IV: What Happened to History? -- The Past is Prologue -- Tunneling In -- Imagining Epoch -- Another History -- Narrating Vietnam -- Catastrophe: The Ends of History -- Part V: Relations Stopping Nowhere -- The Postnuclear Family -- The Reach of Community -- From There to Here: Migration and Nation |
| Responsibility: | Patrick O'Donnell. |
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| Local System Bib Number: | ocn429227179 |
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"In this extremely accessible discussion, O'Donnell (Michigan State Univ.) reveals his as an authoritative voice on novels from the 1980s to present. His selections are, by his own admission, eclectic: he writes in the introduction that he "chose to discuss, where appropriate, both widely read novels published by the mainstream commercial presses and less visible, often experimental work published by independent presses." He looks at work from more than 70 authors, including central figures of the American literary canon--Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, and Don DeLillo, to name only a few. O'Donnell divides the book (and his approach) into five distinctive parts, discussing, respectively, work leading to the 1980s; realism and experimentation; identity, as it pertains to character--gender, ethnicity, and so on; historicity and "end times"; and social emergence within the novel. All this leads to an intriguing "excursus that speculates on the future of the novel." This is a comprehensive discussion of the novel and present circumstances influencing it--an interesting study on many levels." (CHOICE, December 2010) "The American Novel Now provides an accessible introduction to the many strands of post-1980 American fiction." (TLS, June 2010) Read more...
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