From the Civil War to the apocalypse: postmodern history and American fiction
"Recent postmodern theorists have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction ... In addressing the postmodernist claim that history works no differently than fiction, Timothy Parrish rejects the implication that...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Recent postmodern theorists have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction ... In addressing the postmodernist claim that history works no differently than fiction, Timothy Parrish rejects the implication that history is dead or hopelessly relativistic. Rather, he shows how the best postmodern novelists compel their readers to accept their narratives as true. These novelists write history as a form of fiction ... Parrish concludes that history, not identity, is the ground of postmodern American fiction"--From publisher's description. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 308 S. |
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Acknowledgments, ix
Introduction: When Fiction Became History, i
CHAPTER I
Absalom, Absalom!:
William Faulkner s True History of the South, 42
CHAPTER 2
Cormac McCarthy s Blood Meridian:
The First and Last Book of America, 80
CHAPTER 3
OffFaulkner s Plantation:
Toni Morrison s Beloued and Song qf Solomon, 117
CHAPTER 4
Thomas Pynchon s Mason Dixon:
Drawing a Line in the Sands of History, 150
CHAPTER 5
History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan:
Joan Didion s Democracy and Don DeLillo s Underworld, 193
CHAPTER6
Denis Johnson s Fiskadoro:
Postcolonial America, 232
Notes, 269
Works Cited, 291
Index, 303
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Contents
Acknowledgments, ix
Introduction: When Fiction Became History, i
CHAPTER I
Absalom, Absalom!:
William Faulkner's True History of the South, 42
CHAPTER 2
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian:
The First and Last Book of America, 80
CHAPTER 3
OffFaulkner's Plantation:
Toni Morrison's Beloued and Song qf Solomon, 117
CHAPTER 4
Thomas Pynchon's Mason Dixon:
Drawing a Line in the Sands of History, 150
CHAPTER 5
History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan:
Joan Didion's Democracy and Don DeLillo's Underworld, 193
CHAPTER6
Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro:
Postcolonial America, 232
Notes, 269
Works Cited, 291
Index, 303 |
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