Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Bran Nicol is a Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Portsmouth. Klappentext A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo. 'Nicol's continuously readable Introduction is a valuable work of reference and one which many students will find helpful.' Notes and Queries Zusammenfassung Designed for students and clearly written! this Introduction explains the preoccupations! styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors! including Beckett! Borges! Burroughs! Pynchon! Carter! Atwood! Morrison! Gibson! Auster! DeLillo and Ellis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: reading postmodern fiction; 1. Postmodern fiction: theory and practice; 2. Early postmodern fiction: Beckett, Borges, and Burroughs; 3. 1960s and 1970s US metafiction: Coover, Barth, Nabokov, Vonnegut, Pynchon; 4. The postmodern historical novel: Fowles, Barnes, Swift; 5. Postmodern-postcolonial fiction; 6. Postmodern fiction by women: Carter, Atwood, Acker; 7. Two postmodern genres: cyberpunk and 'metaphysical' detective fiction; 8. Fiction of the 'postmodern condition': Ballard, DeLillo, Ellis; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Bran Nicol, Bran (University of Portsmouth) Nicol
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521679572
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67957-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies