"How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michae…
Based on recent conversations with Tim O'Brien, previously published interviews, and new readings of all his works -- including "Tomcat in Love" -- this book is the first study to concentrate on the role and representation of trauma as the central focus of all O'Brien's works. -…
A Trauma Artist examines how O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam as a never-ending fiction that paradoxically "recovers" personal experience by both recapturing and (re)disguising it. Mark Heberle considers O'Brien's career as a wri…
"Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a com…
Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a comp…
"Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmosternist theory"--Provided by publisher.
"Modernism and postmodernism will in this text be viewed in terms of continuity and discontinuity. The experimental tendencies in postmodern art are interpreted aganst the backdrop of the overall cultural and social context, which creates both the intellectual climate and the ma…
