The Dialectic of Self and Story: Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction

By Robert Durante

Book Overview

Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of a return to realism, it also evidences recurring themes of postmodernism, such as alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self-reflexiveness.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815337590
• ISBN13: 9780815337591
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"