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Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction /

Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction / edited by K. Versluys. - 1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations. - Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 Postmodern Studies ; 5 . - Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000. Postmodern Studies ; 5. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editor: Kristiaan Versluys -- Introduction / Kristiaan Versluys -- Writing Fiction in the 90s / Malcolm Bradbury -- American Realisms, American Realities / Mark Shechner -- Theoretical Palefaces/ Neo-Realistic Redskins, or Why the Ghost of Philip Rahv Would Cry “Uncle!” / Sanford Pinsker -- Surface Knowledge and “Deep” Knowledge: The New Realism in American Fiction / Winfried Fluck -- Postmodern - post mortem 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 -- Toward a Native American ‘Realism’: The Amphibious Fiction of Louise Erdrich / Hans Bak -- Telling A Woman’s Story: Fiction as Biography and Biography as Fiction in Mary Gordon’s Men and Angels and Alison Lurie’s The Truth About Lorin Jones. / Judie Newman -- Women’s Quest Plot in Mary Gordon’s Work / Aránzazu Usandizaga -- Back Matter -- Notes on Contributors / Editor: Kristiaan Versluys.


English

9789004647237

10.1163/9789004647237 DOI


American fiction--History and criticism--20th century--Congresses.
Modernism (Literature)--Congresses.
Realism in literature--Congresses.

PS374.R37

813.09