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"We search the past-- for our own lost selves" : representations of historical experience in recent American fiction

Title: "We search the past-- for our own lost selves" : representations of historical experience in recent American fiction / Marta Koval.
Author: Kovalʹ, Marta.
Publication: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, ©2013.

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Description

255 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Gdańsk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture, 2192-6018 ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Gdańsk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture ; v. 3.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-255).

Contents

Ch. 1. History that matters : some new ways of problematizing history in fiction -- ch. 2. Subjective history in William Gass's novel The tunnel, or, Side-effects of postmodern diversity -- ch. 3. Visual tools of subjective history-making -- ch. 4. "Holding out for a hint of harmony" : music, subjective history, and identity quest in Richard Powers's The time of our singing -- ch. 5. The experience of and about history : the multicultural dimension of subjective history-making in The Lazarus project by Aleksandar Hemon and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides -- ch. 6. Moral challenges of history in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Home.

ISBN

9783631626108
363162610X

LCCN

2013498168

OCLC

ocn826997340
826997340
SCSB-1761644

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library