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035			_a(OCoLC)429227131
037			_bCambridge Univ Pr, 100 Brook Hill Dr, West Nyack, NY, USA, 10994-2133, (845)3537500 SAN 281-3769
050	0	0	_aPN3503 _b.N48 2009
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100	1		_aNicol, Bran, _d1969-
245	1	4	_aThe Cambridge introduction to postmodern fiction / _cBran Nicol.
260			_aCambridge, UK ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2009.
300			_axvii, 220 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aCambridge introductions to literature
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and index.
505	0		_aPreface: reading postmodern fiction -- Introduction: postmodernism and postmodernity -- Postmodern fiction: theory and practice -- Early postmodern fiction: Beckett, Borges, and Burroughs -- US metafiction: Coover, Barth, Nabokov, Vonnegut, Pynchon -- The postmodern historical novel: Fowles, Barnes, Swift -- Postmodern-postcolonial fiction -- Postmodern fiction by women: Carter, Atwood, Acker -- Two postmodern genres: cyberpunk and 'metaphysical' detective fiction -- Fiction of the 'postmodern condition': Ballard, DeLillo, Ellis.
520			_a"Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the 'pioneers', Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commonplace assumptionsabout literature"--Provided by publisher.
520			_a"Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question commonsense and commonplace assumptions about literature"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aFiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPostmodernism (Literature)
830		0	_aCambridge introductions to literature.
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