The novels of Paul Auster—finely wrought, self-reflexive, filled with doublings, coincidences, and mysteries—have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary...
Silvio Gaggi's survey of the vast terrain of twentieth century arts and ideas is unique not only for its scope but also for the clarity and cohesiveness it brings to wide-ranging, seemingly disparate...
Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media
Silvio Gaggi
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812216776
Pub Date: September 1998
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—the self—is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in...
The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson
Herman Beavers
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812231502
Pub Date: May 1995
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Herman Beavers offers a richly nuanced study of Ernes J. Gaines, James Alan McPherson, and Ralph Ellison as writers who have found ways to invest circumstances that might otherwise be seen as sites...
The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Alicia Borinsky
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812232349
Pub Date: October 1993
Format: Hardcover
168 Pages
Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons...
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Since the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a new generation of Native American storytellers has chosen writing...
Don DeLillo once remarked to an interviewer that his intention is to use "the whole picture, the whole culture," of America. Since the publication of his first novel Americana in 1971, DeLillo has explored...
In Search of High Art in Contemporary American Writing
James D. Bloom
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812215984
Pub Date: February 1997
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
What is "literature in these postmodern, postcanonical times? And if a small number of works being written today are "literary," what distinguishes them from those many others that are not? The store...
Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory
Nancy J. Peterson
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780812235944
Pub Date: April 2001
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's...
