TY - BOOK AU - Versluys,K. TI - Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction T2 - Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 SN - 9789004647237 AV - PS374.R37 U1 - 813.09 23 PY - 1992/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Congresses KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Realism in literature N1 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004647237 ER -