Paul Auster''s Postmodernity

Informationen zum Autor Brendan Martin was awarded a doctorate at Queen’s University Belfast where he specialized in American literature and postmodern theory. He is an Arts Associate Lecturer with the Open University in Ireland and Librarian at St. Mary’s University College Belfast. Klappentext This book focuses upon the literary and autobiographical writings of American novelist Paul Auster, investigating his literary postmodernity in relation to a full range of his writings. Martin addresses Auster's evocation of a range of postmodern notions, such as the duplicitous art of self-invention, the role of chance and contingency, authorial authenticity and accountability, urban dislocation, and the predominance of duality. Zusammenfassung Provides a critique of Paul Auster's writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter One: Writing, Self-Invention, Memory: The Residual Modernism of Paul Auster’s Postmodernity Chapter Two: "Our Lives Are No More Than the Sum of Manifold Contingencies": Paul Auster’s Ambiguous Postmodern Philosophy Chapter Three: "Every Man is the Author of his Own Life": Postmodern Life-Writing and the Duplicity of Self-Invention Chapter Four: Dislocation, Ambiguity, Indeterminacy: The Postmodernity of The New York Trilogy Chapter Five: Postmodern Modes of Social Identity: Paul Auster’s Evocation of Urban Dislocation, Estranged Solitude, Collective Diversity Chapter Six: The Authority of Authorship: The Ambiguities of Life-Writing in Leviathan Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Brendan Martin, Brendan (City University Martin, Brendan (St. Mary's University College Martin, Brendan (St. Mary''s University College Martin, Brendan Peter Martin, Martin Brendan, MARTIN BRENDAN PETER
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2007
• EAN: 9780415962032
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96203-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors; Studies in Major Literary Auth; Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000