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Postmortem postmodernists : the afterlife of the author in recent narrative

Title: Postmortem postmodernists : the afterlife of the author in recent narrative / Laura E. Savu.
Author: Savu, Laura E., 1973-
Publication: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.

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Description

290 p.; 24 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.

Contents

How literature is lived through: touching reading and Geoff Dyer's "Sheer rage" -- Writing in the margins of an "endless novel" -- Testamentary fictions: revisiting Peter Ackroyd's The last testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton -- The "crooked business" of storytelling: the ethics of authorship and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs -- The buried life: distancing and displacement in Colm Tóibín's The master -- Stories within stories: Virginia Woolf among other artists -- Epilogue: the sense of a beginning, or the future past of postmodernism.

Call Number

JFE 09-2879

ISBN

9780838641811 (alk. paper)
0838641814 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008022279

OCLC

230802004

Author

Savu, Laura E., 1973-

Title

Postmortem postmodernists : the afterlife of the author in recent narrative / Laura E. Savu.

Imprint

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 09-2879

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