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035			_a(OCoLC)1416028387
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082	0	4	_a813.5409145 _223
100	1		_aAlsen, Eberhard, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRomantic Postmodernism in American Fiction / _cEberhard Alsen.
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill, _c1996.
264		4	_c©1996
300			_a1 online resource (308 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aLiterature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
490	1		_aPostmodern Studies ; _v19
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_tPreliminary Material / _rEberhard Alsen -- Preface / _rEberhard Alsen -- Acknowledgements / _rEberhard Alsen -- Introduction / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 1 Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King : A Romantic Manifesto / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 2 J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey and the Teachings of the Bhagavad Gita / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 3 The Manichean Pessimism of Norman Mailer's An American Dream / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 4 The Figure of the Devil in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear it Away & "The Lame Shall Enter First" / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 5 Breakfast of Champions : Kurt Vonnegut on the Nature of Man and God / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 6 The Fantastic in Philip Roth's The Breast and Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 7 John Barth's "Night Sea Journey" and Sabbatical : From Exhaustion to Replenishment / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 8 "Transcendent Doings" in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 9 Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and the Secret of Spiritual Flight / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 10 Alice Walker's The Color Purple as a Transcendentalist Romance / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 11 Sin and the Supernatural in William Kennedy's Ironweed / _rEberhard Alsen -- Chapter 12 Paul Auster's Ghosts and Mr. Vertigo : Homage to the Romantics / _rEberhard Alsen -- Conclusion / _rEberhard Alsen -- Cumulative List of Works Cited / _rEberhard Alsen -- Index / _rEberhard Alsen.
520			_aIntended 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			_aEnglish
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPostmodernism (Literature) _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRomanticism _zUnited States.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tRomantic Postmodernism in American Fiction. _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 1996. _z9789051839685 _w(OCoLC)36444219
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.
830		0	_aPostmodern Studies ; _v19.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004658981
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