Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction / (Record no. 48961)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789004658981 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic book) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9789051839685 |
| Qualifying information | (print) |
| 024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 10.1163/9789004658981 |
| Source of number or code | DOI |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)1416028387 |
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| Original cataloging agency | NL-LeKB |
| Transcribing agency | NL-LeKB |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS369 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | JFC |
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| Subject category code | SOC |
| Subject category code subdivision | 022000 |
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| Subject category code | SOC |
| Subject category code subdivision | 026000 |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813.5409145 |
| Edition information | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Alsen, Eberhard, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Eberhard Alsen. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Leiden ; |
| -- | Boston : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Brill, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 1996. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©1996 |
| 300 ## - online resource | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (308 pages) : |
| Other physical details | illustrations. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Postmodern Studies ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 19 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Title | Preliminary Material / |
| Statement of responsibility | Eberhard Alsen -- Preface / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Acknowledgements / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Introduction / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 1 Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King : A Romantic Manifesto / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 2 J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey and the Teachings of the Bhagavad Gita / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 3 The Manichean Pessimism of Norman Mailer's An American Dream / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 4 The Figure of the Devil in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear it Away & "The Lame Shall Enter First" / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 5 Breakfast of Champions : Kurt Vonnegut on the Nature of Man and God / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 6 The Fantastic in Philip Roth's The Breast and Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 7 John Barth's "Night Sea Journey" and Sabbatical : From Exhaustion to Replenishment / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 8 "Transcendent Doings" in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 9 Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and the Secret of Spiritual Flight / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 10 Alice Walker's The Color Purple as a Transcendentalist Romance / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 11 Sin and the Supernatural in William Kennedy's Ironweed / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Chapter 12 Paul Auster's Ghosts and Mr. Vertigo : Homage to the Romantics / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Conclusion / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Cumulative List of Works Cited / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen -- Index / |
| -- | Eberhard Alsen. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American fiction. The book challenges the opinion expressed in the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991) and propagated by many influential scholars that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction is represented by the disjunctive and nihilistic work of such writers as Kathy Acker, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. Professor Alsen disagrees. He contends that this kind of fiction is not read and taught much outside an isolated but powerful circle in the academic community. It is the two-part thesis of Professor Alsen's book that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction consists of the widely read work of the Nobel Prize laureates Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison and other similar writers and that this mainstream fiction is essentially romantic. To support his argument, Professor Alsen analyzes representative novels by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, the later John Barth, Alice Walker, William Kennedy, and Paul Auster. Professor Alsen demonstrates that the traits which distinguish the fiction of the romantic postmodernists from the fiction of their disunctive and nihilist colleagues include a vision of life that is a form of philosophical idealism, an organic view of art, modes of storytelling that are reminiscent of the nineteenth-century romance, and such themes as the nature of sin or evil, the negative effects of technology on the soul, and the quest for transcendence. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | American fiction |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century |
| General subdivision | History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Postmodernism (Literature) |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Romanticism |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Title | Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1996. |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789051839685 |
| Record control number | (OCoLC)36444219 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Postmodern Studies ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 19. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | DOI: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004658981">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004658981</a> |
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