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Postmodern Counternarratives : Irony and Audience in the Novels of Paul Auster, Don Delillo, Ch...
ISBN: 9780415803441 | 0415803446
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 6/16/2009
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This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists. Despite wildly contrasting ambitions and agendas, all four grow progressively more sympathetic to the expectations of a mainstream literary audience, noting the increasingly neglected yet archetypal need for strong explanatory narrative even while remaining wary of its limitations, presumptions, and potential abuses. Exploring novels that manage to bridge the gap between accessible storytelling and literary theory, this book shows how contemporary authors reconcile values of posmodern literary experimentation and traditional realism.
| Postmodernism, Liberal Ironism, and Contemporary Storytelling | |
| Social Realism in the Postmodern Age | |
| Middle Class Realism and the Acceptance of the Reader | |
| Morality and Solidarity in the Ironic Novel | |
| Evil is the Movement Toward Void: Self-Absorption, Play, and the Ambiguous Gift of Genre in the Earlier Novels of Don DeLillo | |
| Entropy and Efflorescence: To and From the Zero in the Early Novels of Paul Auster... MORE | |
| Nobody Would Believe a Word: Earnestness in the Face of Postmodernism Terror in the Early Novels of Tim O'Brien | |
| Father's Gift of Mythopoesis and Love: Conflicted Voices in the Early Charles Johnson | |
| The Days of Being a Shadow are Over: The Ironic Narrative in Practice | |
| Others First: Approaching Solidarity | |
| Bibliography | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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