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The Resource On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War, Daniel Grausam

On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War, Daniel Grausam

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What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)
Contents
  • Introduction: On endings
  • Institutionalizing postmodernism: John Barth and modern war
  • The Crying of Lot 49, circa 1642; or, Pynchon, periodicity, and total war
  • The time of the nation, the time of the state
  • Unthinking the thinkability of the unthinkable
  • Trying to understand end zone
  • The dominant tense: Richard Powers and late postmodernism
  • Afterword: Critical conventions/postmodern canons
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9780813931661
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On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War
Title
On endings
Title remainder
American postmodern fiction and the Cold War
Statement of responsibility
Daniel Grausam
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Language
eng
Summary
What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War
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N$T
Dewey number
813/.5409
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
LC call number
PS374.P64
LC item number
G7 2011eb
Literary form
non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War, Daniel Grausam
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index
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Contents
Introduction: On endings -- Institutionalizing postmodernism: John Barth and modern war -- The Crying of Lot 49, circa 1642; or, Pynchon, periodicity, and total war -- The time of the nation, the time of the state -- Unthinking the thinkability of the unthinkable -- Trying to understand end zone -- The dominant tense: Richard Powers and late postmodernism -- Afterword: Critical conventions/postmodern canons
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ocn785928180
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Extent
1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)
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Isbn
9780813931661
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rdamedia
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