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Postmortem Postmodernists: The Afterlife of the Author in Recent Narrative
Laura E. Savu
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Hardback. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
This book scrutinizes the genre of the author-as-character with respect to three broad issues–authorship, the posthumous, and cultural revisionism–that arise in reading such works from a contemporary perspective. Late twentieth-century fiction 'postmodernizes' romantic and modern authors not only to understand them better, but also to understand itself in relation to a past (literary tradition, aesthetic paradigms, cultural formations, etc.) that has not really passed. Penelope Fitzgerald's 'The Blue Flower', Peter Ackroyd's 'The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton', Peter Carey's 'Jack Maggs', Michael Cunningham's 'The Hours', Colm Toibin's 'The Master', and Geoff Dyer's 'Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with ... Read more
This book scrutinizes the genre of the author-as-character with respect to three broad issues–authorship, the posthumous, and cultural revisionism–that arise in reading such works from a contemporary perspective. Late twentieth-century fiction 'postmodernizes' romantic and modern authors not only to understand them better, but also to understand itself in relation to a past (literary tradition, aesthetic paradigms, cultural formations, etc.) that has not really passed. Penelope Fitzgerald's 'The Blue Flower', Peter Ackroyd's 'The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton', Peter Carey's 'Jack Maggs', Michael Cunningham's 'The Hours', Colm Toibin's 'The Master', and Geoff Dyer's 'Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
557g
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473919
SKU
V9781611473919
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About Laura E. Savu
Laura E. Savu is a lecturer at the University of Bucharest
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