Postmodern/postwar and after rethinking American literature

Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of "postmodernism," new organizations have emerged, book series...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gladstone, Jason, editor (editor), Hoberek, Andrew, 1967- editor, Worden, Daniel, 1978- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press [2016]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
The new American canon.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46070400*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction . Jason Gladstone and Daniel Worden
  • part I. Dialogue
  • Postmodern, postwar, contemporary : a dialogue on the field / Andrew Hoberek, with Samuel Cohen, Amy J. Elias, Mary Esteve, Matthew Hart, and David James
  • part II. The postmodern revisited
  • Break, period, interregnum / Brian McHale
  • Cold War postmodernism / Harilaos Stecopoulos
  • How postmodernism became earnest / David James
  • Reperiodizing the postmodern : textualizing the world system before and after 9/11 / Leerom Medovoi
  • Mapping postmodernism and after / Emilio Sauri
  • part III. The postwar reconfigured
  • The idea of happiness : back to the postwar future / Mary Esteve
  • Cold War, post-Cold War : what was (is) the Cold War? / Daniel Grausam
  • The forms of formal realism : literary study and the life cycle of the novel / Deak Nabers
  • Perpetual interwar / Paul K. Saint-Amour
  • part IV. What comes after
  • Six propositions on compromise aesthetics / Rachel Greenwald Smith
  • The new sincerity / Adam Kelly
  • Influences of the digital / N. Katherine Hayles
  • The resurgence of the political novel / Caren Irr
  • The currency of the contemporary / Theodore Martin
  • Make it vanish / Michael W. Clune
  • Slow-forward to the future / Ursula K. Heise.