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Informationen zum Autor Paula Geyh is Associate Professor of English at Yeshiva University, New York. She is the author of Cities, Citizens, and Technologies: Urban Life and Postmodernity (2009), and a coeditor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (with Fred G. Leebron and Andrew Levy, 1997). Her articles on postmodern literature and culture have appeared in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, PARADOXA, and Criticism. Klappentext This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction. Zusammenfassung This Companion is an authoritative! comprehensive! and accessible guide to postmodern American fiction. An indispensable resource for students! scholars! and the general reader! the volume examines the principal genres of postmodern American fiction in their historical and cultural contexts! provides illuminating critical frameworks! and offers concise! compelling readings of key works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Paula Geyh; 1. Postmodern precursors Jonathan P. Eburne; 2. Prolonged periodization: American fiction after 1960 David Cowart; 3. Postmodern American fiction and global literature Caren Irr; 4. Philosophical skepticism and narrative incredulity: postmodern theory and postmodern American fiction Arkady Plotnitsky; 5. History and fiction Timothy Parrish; 6. Gender and sexuality: postmodern constructions Sally Robinson; 7. Pluralism and postmodernism: the histories and geographies of ethnic American literature Dean Franco; 8. The zombie in the mirror: postmodernism and subjectivity in science fiction Elana Gomel; 9. Postmodern styles: language, reflexivity, and pastiche Patrick O'Donnell; 10. Between word and image: the textual and the visual in postmodern American fiction Paula Geyh; 11. Electronic fictions: television, the internet, and the future of digital fiction Astrid Ensslin....
