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Journal articles on the topic "American fiction Postmodernism (Literature) Realism"

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Savvas, Theophilus, and Christopher K. Coffman. "American fiction after postmodernism." Textual Practice 33, no. 2 (2019): 195–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2018.1505322.

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Rollins, Peter C., and John Limon. "Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism." Journal of American History 82, no. 3 (1995): 1175. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2945133.

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Miller, D. Quentin. "Review of: Writing After War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 42, no. 1 (1996): 157–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0033.

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Dubey, Madhu. "Contemporary African American Fiction and the Politics of Postmodernism." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 35, no. 2/3 (2002): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1346181.

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Zima, P. V. "Contingency and construction: from mimesis to postmodernism." Literator 18, no. 2 (1997): 99–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v18i2.544.

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In this article the transition from literary realism (Balzac, George Eliot, Verga) is described as a shift from mimesis to constructivism. It is indicated how the realist confidence in the ability of the writer to represent reality as such yields to a modernist skepticism which recognises the contingent character of all fictional constructs. In spite of this discovery, modernists such as Kafka, Proust and Sartre still believe in a meaningful search for reality, authenticity and truth. This belief seems to disappear in the works of postmodernist authors such as Robbe-Grillet, Eco or Fowles who

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McHale, Brian. "Afterword: Reconstructing Postmodernism." KANT Social Sciences & Humanities, no. 3 (July 2020): 52–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24923/2305-8757.2020-3.6.

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Brian McHale begins his reflections on postmodernism with the words of Steve Katz, who metaphorically described the onset of a once-new era, bringing everyone "out into the air" and imagining how the color of the traffic light changed and at the same time "in different cities, we crossed the street." This idea so delighted McHale that he "brought" people to the streets not only in different cities, but on all continents, anticipating the planetary advance of postmodernism. The author examines the mechanism of emergence and ways of spreading postmodernism, linking these processes with the globa

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Person, Leland S., and Elissa Greenwald. "Realism and the Romance: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and American Fiction." American Literature 61, no. 4 (1989): 692. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927009.

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Wonham, Henry B. "Postcritical Howells: American Realism and Liberal Guilt." American Literature 92, no. 2 (2020): 229–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267720.

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Abstract This essay explores the concept of liberal guilt in William Dean Howells’s fiction, focusing especially on his 1888 novel Annie Kilburn. Genealogies of liberal guilt rarely mention Howells, and yet no American writer has more painstakingly elaborated the embarrassing predicament of middle-class complicity in social arrangements that entail the widespread suffering of others. I provide a summary of theoretical positions on liberal guilt as a structure of feeling that entails what Richard Rorty calls “doubt about [one’s] own sensitivity to the pain and humiliation of others, doubt that

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Browne, Ray B. "American Fiction: Modernism?Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction by Jaroslav Kusnir." Journal of American Culture 30, no. 3 (2007): 334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.2007.00561.x.

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Peterson, Nancy J. "History, Postmodernism, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 109, no. 5 (1994): 982–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/462966.

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The deconstruction of history by poststructuralists and some philosophers of history has occurred at the moment when women and indigenous peoples have begun to write their own historical accounts. Louise Erdrich's historical novel, Tracks, brings into focus the necessity and the difficulties of writing Native American history in a postmodern epoch. The novel addresses two crucial issues: the referential value of history (If it is impossible to know the past fully, is it impossible to know the past at all?) and the status of history as narrative (If history is just a story, how is it possible t

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American fiction Postmodernism (Literature) Realism"

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Oxoby, Marc C. "American literary fiction in a televisual age /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2005. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/dissertations/fullcit/3209131.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2005.<br>"August, 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-227). Online version available on the World Wide Web. Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2005]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Potkalitsky, Nicolas J. "Refracted Realism and the Ethical Dominant in Contemporary American Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563283222402333.

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Harker, Ben. "Critical oppositions : realism, postmodernism and the reception of contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10885/.

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Coughran, Christopher John. "Literary ecology and the fiction of American postmodernism /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18752.pdf.

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Mason, Francis Andrew. "Narrative and postmodernism : politics and contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386656.

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Mathews, Peter David 1975. "Strategies of realism : realist fiction and postmodern theory." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8656.

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Kavanagh, Matthew. "Second nature: American fiction in the age of capitalist realism." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18440.

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Second Nature: American fiction in the age of capitalist realism During the 1990s the global triumph of capitalism has made it, paradoxically, all the more difficult to see. Not only is capitalism increasingly derealized (e.g. cyber-capital), its very ubiquity renders it unremarkable, to the point that it appears a neutral part of objective reality. This dissertation examines how American writers have responded to the 'spectrality' that results from the mediation of everyday experience through the market. I discuss formal strategies in the work of Bret Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Don DeLillo, Wil

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Stanford, Amanda Theresa. "Outsized reality : how 'magical realism' hijacked modern Latin American fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7847.

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Creative Portion abstract (75%): Literary Fiction Manuscript Souvenirs of the Revolution Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, betrayal, sexual deviance, rigid morality and a fatal subservience to moral correctness drives the Montelejos clan: complex and self-serving, innocent and deluded, larger than life, an illustrious family line in its final decline. Mariabella Montelejos, who tries to sell her only daughter for the price of a new carriage during the bloodiest part of the Revolution. Her daughter, Portensia Montelejos, who leaves her mother’s body to moulder in the front

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Flavell, Helen. "Writing-between : Australian and Canadian ficto-criticism /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20051222.114143.

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Eckman, John. "Confronting modernity : urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9402.

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Books on the topic "American fiction Postmodernism (Literature) Realism"

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Writing after war: American war fiction from realism to postmodernism. Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Hicks, tribes & dirty realists: American fiction after postmodernism. University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

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W, Tuttleton James, ed. Alternate worlds: A study of postmodern antirealistic American fiction. New York University Press, 1989.

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Alexander, Marguerite. Flights from realism: Themes and strategies in postmodernist British and American fiction. Edward Arnold, 1990.

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The dialectic of self and story: Reading and storytelling in contemporary American fiction. Routledge, 2001.

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Die Wahrheit der Täuschung: Wirklichkeitskonstitution im amerikanischen Roman, 1889-1989. W. Fink, 2004.

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Terminal identity: The virtual subject in postmodern science fiction. Duke University Press, 1993.

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The stories of Raymond Carver: A critical study. Ohio University Press, 1995.

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Alsen, Eberhard. Romantic postmodernism in American fiction. Rodopi, 1996.

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Kušnír, Jaroslav. American fiction: modernism-postmodernism, popular culture, and metafiction. Ibidem, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "American fiction Postmodernism (Literature) Realism"

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Birnbaum, Michele. "Towards Desegregating Syllabuses: Teaching American Literary Realism and Racial Uplift Fiction." In Teaching Literature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230507906_6.

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Beckman, Ericka. "The Landowner’s Ghosts: Realism and Financialization in Contemporary Latin American Fiction." In Literature and the Global Contemporary. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63055-7_1.

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Scharnhorst, Gary. "“All Hat and No Cattle”: Romance, Realism, and Late Nineteenth-Century Western American Fiction." In A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444396591.ch18.

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Clare, Ralph. "Metaffective fiction: structuring feeling in post-postmodern American literature." In After Postmodernism. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003121770-5.

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Ladyga, Zuzanna. "Inertia and Not-Knowing in the Fiction of Donald Barthelme." In The Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474442923.003.0007.

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The chapter looks at Barthelme’s literary work through the prism of sloth/laziness variants such as inertia, nausea, and most importantly, Anton Ehrenzweig’s rendition of inoperativity via the concept of unconscious scanning. From Barthelme’s early renditions of the figure of the artist such as the Pollockian Paul in Snow White (1967), through avatars of passive artists in his short stories, to the half-dead-half-alive carcass of D.F. in The Dead Father (1975), there emerges a radical counter-Rosenbergian philosophy of action/inaction. No author of American postmodernism has done more to counteract the Rosenbergian post-Romantic idea of heightened sensibility of passive repose than did Barthelme. The purpose of this chapter is to bring the themes of inertia and sterēsis, understood by Barthelme as Ehrenzweig’s unconscious scanning, as unique insights into creative processes, insights which exceed the classical postmodern ethical and aesthetic regime

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Keaveney, Christopher T. "Game On: Encounters with the Magic of Baseball in Japanese Postmodern Fiction." In Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455829.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 builds upon the foundation established in Chapter 4 by examining a particular approach to literature, Postmodernism, and describing how the postmodern literature that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s in Japan, indebted to postmodern baseball fiction in the United States, exemplifies the continuing appeal of baseball as a literary subject and of baseball’s capacity to adapt to cultural shifts. The chapter provides analyses of four baseball-themed works including fiction by the well-know postmodern novelists Murakami Haruki and Takahashi Genichirō, and more recent works by Nagao Seio and Enjō Tō, to demonstrate the possibilities that baseball fiction offers for avant-garde literary experimentation, possibilities exploited in American literature by writers from Philip Roth to Bernard Malamud. This chapter also charts how, ironically, Nagao Seio in his novel Shiki and Sōseki’s Big Game, achieves a remarkable pastiche in which one of the protagonists is none other than Masaoka Shiki with whom this survey of cultural representations of baseball in Japan begins.

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Massé, Guirdex. "Circling the Boundaries of the Tradition." In Rediscovering Frank Yerby. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827821.003.0002.

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This chapter is not so much concerned with reviewing, assessing, or critically analyzing the body of Yerby’s work, as it is with delineating the writer’s relationship to these major literary moments that have characterized the black literary tradition at the midpoint of the twentieth century. To simply dismiss Frank Yerby as a peculiar case in African American writing is to miscalculate how significant turns in his literary career reflected dominant movements and trends, as well as formal and thematic innovations and limitations that have characterized the trajectory of African American literature from the early 1930s to the 1940s. This period ranges from the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance/New Negro Movement to an era of social realism in African American fiction.

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Holbo, Christine. "Introduction." In Legal Realisms. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190604547.003.0001.

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The introduction argues that the reconstruction of the American novel in the post-Civil War era had its roots in a confrontation with the legal remapping of the nation under the Fourteenth Amendment. William Dean Howells’s pivotal influence on the shaping of post-Civil War American literature, this chapter suggests, was rooted in his grasp of the challenge Reconstruction posed to the epistemological and legal foundations of the novel as form. Providing an initial definition of the idea of “legal realism” in fiction as the confluence between Fourteenth-Amendment universalism and a mandate to understand modern society from a plurality of perspectives, the introduction asserts that the project of creating an “autonomous art”—an art that was not subservient to politics, journalism, philosophy, or morality—involved embracing all of these fields in relation to the new definition of citizenship and in relation to a sociological panorama of American society. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s assertion that “the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience,” cut against the novel’s universalism but also opened up new possibilities of representation, which were embraced, extended, and criticized by Albion Tourgée, in defending the rights of African-American freedmen to equality, and by Helen Hunt Jackson, in articulating the rights of Native Americans to enjoy either the rights of nations or those of citizenship. Concluding with the idea that objective exploration of nescience in relation to the suffering of others can be a source of knowledge in law as in literature, the introduction explores the connection between legal right and the novel’s frameworks of sympathetic imagination and multi-perspectival dissonance.

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Holbo, Christine. "Imperfect Knowledge." In Legal Realisms. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190604547.003.0004.

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This chapter examines William Dean Howells, the writer and editor who defined the field of American literature in the decades of Reconstruction. While Howells has long been considered the leading champion of literary realism, the way he thought about the novel’s art as a mode of “social” politics has been misunderstood. This chapter addresses the first half of Howells’s career, looking at his early antislavery politics, his cosmopolitan reading in the German and Italian traditions, his magazine writings including Venetian Life, Their Wedding Journey, Suburban Sketches, and “Police Report,” and his fiction up through A Modern Instance. Howells remained committed to emancipatory ideals rooted in the antislavery struggle. However, he articulated a strikingly new conception of the novel’s role as a form of political discourse. Howells challenged his contemporaries to expand the field of literary “politics” to imagine society as a space suffused with political power, and by doing so to confront the barriers to equal social recognition that remained in an era of de jure universal citizenship. Calling into question sentimental notions of moral universality, he insisted that the novel’s contribution rested in a perspectivalist epistemology, its capacity to confront readers with the irreducible particularities of a world shaped by incomplete emancipation. Howells urged his contemporaries to confront alterity in a double sense. While including all American “subjects” in the novel’s representation, novelists needed to ask what it meant to try to represent others’ experiences, and what Americans could not understand about each other.

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