Postmortem postmodernists
Subtitle: the afterlife of the author in recent narrative
By: Laura E. Savu.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780838641811
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 21th century -- History and criticism; Authors in literature; Literary form -- History; Biography as a literary form; Postmodernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How literature is lived through: touching reading and Geoff Dyer's "Sheer rage"; title: Writing in the margins of an "endless novel"; title: Testamentary fictions: revisiting Peter Ackroyd's The last testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton; title: The "crooked business" of storytelling: the ethics of authorship and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs; title: The buried life: distancing and displacement in Colm Tóibín's The master; title: Stories within stories: Virginia Woolf among other artists; title: Epilogue: the sense of a beginning, or the future past of postmodernism.