After the End of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the End of History write by Samuel Cohen. This book was released on 2009-10-01. After the End of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Roth's American Pastoral, Morrison's Paradise, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted, Eugenides's Middlesex, Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, and DeLillo's Underworld. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is ironically keen on denying that connection. Exploring the ways ideas about paradise and pastoral, difference and exclusion, innocence and righteousness, triumph and trauma deform the stories Americans tell themselves about their nation’s past, After the End of History challenges us to reconsider these works in a new light, offering fresh, insightful readings of what are destined to be classic works of literature. At the same time, Cohen enters into the theoretical discussion about postmodern historical understanding. Throwing his hat in the ring with force and style, he confronts not only Francis Fukuyama’s triumphalist response to the fall of the Soviet Union but also the other literary and political “end of history” claims put forth by such theorists as Fredric Jameson and Walter Benn Michaels. In a straightforward, affecting style, After the End of History offers us a new vision for the capabilities and confines of contemporary fiction.
American Fiction of the 1990s
American Fiction of the 1990s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Fiction of the 1990s write by Jay Prosser. This book was released on 2008. American Fiction of the 1990s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000
American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000 write by Stephen J. Burn. This book was released on 2017-12-28. American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating inherited forms, by adopting and adapting emerging technologies to narrative ends, and by finding new voices that had remained outside that canon for too long. By reading 1990s literature in a sequence of shifting contexts - from independent presses to the AIDS crisis, and from angelology to virtual reality - American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000 provides the fullest map yet of the changing shape of a rich and diverse decade's literary production. It offers new perspectives on the period's well-known landmarks, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, but also overdue recognition to writers such as Ana Castillo, Evan Dara, Steve Erickson, and Carole Maso.
American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990
American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 write by D. Quentin Miller. This book was released on 2017-12-28. American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History has not been kind to the 1980s. The decade is often associated with absurd fashion choices, neo-Conservatism in the Reagan/Bush years, the AIDS crisis, Wall Street ethics, and uninspired television, film, and music. Yet the literature of the 1980s is undeniably rich and lasting. American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 seeks to frame some of the decade's greatest achievements such as Toni Morrison's monumental novel Beloved and to consider some of the trends that began in the 1980s and developed thereafter, including the origins of the graphic novel, prison literature, and the opening of multiculturalism vis-à-vis the 'canon wars'. This volume argues not only for the importance of 1980s American literature, but also for its centrality in understanding trends and trajectories in all contemporary literature against the broader background of culture. This volume serves as both an introduction and a deep consideration of the literary culture of our most maligned decade.
American Culture in the 1940s
American Culture in the 1940s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Culture in the 1940s write by Jacqueline Foertsch. This book was released on 2008-03-27. American Culture in the 1940s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America - fiction and non-fiction; music and radio; film and theatre; serious and popular visual arts - and key texts, trends and figures, from Native Son to Citizen Kane, from Hiroshima to HUAC, and from Dr Seuss to Bob Hope. After discussing the dominant ideas that inform the 1940s the book culminates with a chapter on the 'culture of war'. Rather than splitting the decade at 1945, Jacqueline Foertsch argues persuasively that the 1940s should be taken as a whole, seeking out links between wartime and postwar American culture.
