Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Titre(s) : American literature in transition, 1990-2000 [Texte imprimé] / edited by Stephen J. Burn
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge university press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-386 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : American literature in transition
Lien à la collection : American literature in transition
Comprend : American literature and the Millennium / Jeremy Green ; Angels, ghosts, and postsecular
visions / Brian McHale ; Aging novelists and the end of the American century / Marshall
Boswell ; Violence / Sean Grattan ; The end of the book / David Ciccoricco ; The
end of postmodernism / Ralph Clare ; Enclyclopedic fictions / Stephen J. Burn ;
Historical fiction / John N. Duvall ; Lyrical thinking in poetry of the 1990s / Thomas
Gardner ; Story cycles / Paul March-Russell ; Materiality in the late age of print
/ Mary K. Holland ; Manifestos / Rachel Greenwalk Smith ; Revisionary strategies
/ Christian Moraru ; Borders and mixed-race fictions / Aliki Varvogli ; Globalization
/ Paul Giles ; The two-cultures Novel / Jon Adams ; Ecosystem / Heather Houser
; Virtual reality / Joseph Conte ; Trauma / Patrick O'Donnell ; Family / Kasia Boddy
; Aids / Lesley Larkin ; The university 'after' theory / Daniel Punday ; Independent
presses / Jeffrey R. Dileo.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s
was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and
even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight
hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the
continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating inherited forms, by adopting
and adapting emerging technologies to narrative ends, and by finding new voices that
had remained outside that canon for too long. By reading 1990s literature in a sequence
of shifting contexts - from independent presses to the AIDs crisis; from angelology
to virtual reality - American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000 provides the fullest
map yet of the changing shape of a rich and diverse decade's literary production.
It offers new perspectives on the period's well-known landmarks, Toni Morrison, Thomas
Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, but also overdue recognition to writers such as Ana
Castillo, Evan Dara, Steve Erickson, and Carole Maso"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Burn, Stephen. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- 1945-2000
Littérature américaine -- 1990-2020
Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- 1990-2020
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107136014. - ISBN 1107136016 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45318222p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45318222
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
