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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, [2009], ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR881 .S28 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 290 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Englisch
- Roman
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Literary form > History
- Autor (Motiv)
- Postmodernism (Literature) > Great Britain
- Authors in literature
- English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Modernism (Aesthetics) > United States
- Biography as a literary form
- Geschichte 1990-2005
- American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780838641811 (alk. paper)
- 0838641814 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008022279
- OCLC
- ocn230802004
- 230802004
- SCSB-5472408
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries