The Dialectic of Self and Story
Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction| By: | Robert Durante |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780815337591 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135713379 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2001 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of a return to realism, it also evidences recurring themes of postmodernism, such as alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self-reflexiveness.