On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War /
Grausam, Daniel,1975-
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Institutionalizing postmodernism: John Barth and modern war -- The Crying of Lot 49, circa 1642; or, Pynchon, periodicity, and total war -- The time of the nation, the time of the state -- Unthinking the thinkability of the unthinkable -- Trying to understand end zone -- The dominant tense: Richard Powers and late postmodernism.
Barth, John, 1930-
Pynchon, Thomas
Powers, Richard, 1957-
American fiction
Postmodernism (Literature)
Cold War
Cold War in literature.