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Neo-realism in contemporary American fiction / edited by Kristiaan Versluys.

Title
Neo-realism in contemporary American fiction / edited by Kristiaan Versluys.
Publication
Amsterdam ; Atlanta, Ga. : Rodopi ; Antwerpen : Restant, 1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Belgian Luxembourg American Studies Association.
  • Versluys, Kristiaan.
Description
210 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Postmodern studies, 0923-0483 ; 5
Uniform Title
Postmodern studies ; 5.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Congresses
  • American fiction
  • Amerikaans
  • Fictie
  • Gent <1991>
  • Literatur
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Modernism (Literature) > Congresses
  • Neorealisme
  • Neorealismus
  • Postmodernism > Congresses
  • Postmodernism
  • Realism in literature > Congresses
  • Realism in literature
  • Realismus
  • Réalisme dans la littérature
  • Roman
  • Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
  • Roman
  • USA
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Essays are primarily "revised versions of papers given at a conference on Neo-Realism organized by the Belgian Luxembourg Studies Association (BLASA) at the University of Gent in May 1991"--Page 11.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also issued online.
Contents
Writing fiction in the 90s / Malcolm Bradbury -- American realism, American realities / Mark Shechner -- Theoretical palefaces/neo-realistic redskins, or why the ghost of Philip Rahv would cry "uncle!" / Sanford Pinsker -- Surface and depth : postmodernism and neo-realist fiction / Winfried Fluck -- Postmodern-postmortem : death and the death of the novel / Alfred Hornung -- Rabbit is redundant : Updike's end of an American epoch / Stacey Olster -- The nightmare of reality : Gothic fantasies and psychological realism in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Eva Manske -- Towards a native American 'realism' : the amphibious fiction of Louise Erdich / Hans Bak -- Telling a woman's story : fiction as biography and biography as fiction in Mary Gordon's Men and angles and Alison Lurie's The truth about Lorin Jones / Judie Newman -- Women's quest plot in Mary Gordon's work / Aránzazu Usandizaga.
ISBN
  • 9051833547
  • 9051833911
  • 9789051833546
  • 9789051833911
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries