Neo-realism in contemporary American fiction
By: edited by Kristiaan Versluys.
Contributors: Versluys, Kristiaan.; Belgian Luxembourg American Studies Association.
Series: Postmodern studies -- 5
Publisher: Rodopi; Restant
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Atlanta, Ga; Antwerpen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Realism in literature -- Congresses.; Postmodernism -- Congresses.; Modernism (Literature) -- Congresses.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Essays are primarily "revised versions of papers given at a conference on Neo-Realism organized by the Belgian Luxembourg Studies Association (BLASA) at the University of Gent in May 1991"--P. 11.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Writing fiction in the 90s / Malcolm Bradbury; value: American realism, American realities / Mark Shechner; value: Theoretical palefaces/neo-realistic redskins, or why the ghost of Philip Rahv would cry "uncle!" / Sanford Pinsker; value: Surface and depth : postmodernism and neo-realist fiction / Winfried Fluck; value: Postmodern-postmortem : death and the death of the novel / Alfred Hornung; value: Rabbit is redundant : Updike's end of an American epoch / Stacey Olster; value: The nightmare of reality : Gothic fantasies and psychological realism in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Eva Manske; value: Towards a native American 'realism' : the amphibious fiction of Louise Erdich / Hans Bak; value: Telling a woman's story : fiction as biography and biography as fiction in Mary Gordon's Men and angles and Alison Lurie's The truth about Lorin Jones / Judie Newman; value: Women's quest plot in Mary Gordon's work / Aránzazu Usandizaga.