"We search the past-- for our own lost selves"
Subtitle: representations of historical experience in recent American fiction
By: Marta Koval
Series: Gdańsk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture -- v. 3; Gdańsk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture -- v. 3.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9783631626108
Subjects: Literature and history; American Historical fiction; History and criticism; History in literature; American fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-255).
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. History that matters : some new ways of problematizing history in fiction; title: ch. 2. Subjective history in William Gass's novel The tunnel, or, Side-effects of postmodern diversity; title: ch. 3. Visual tools of subjective history-making; title: ch. 4. "Holding out for a hint of harmony" : music, subjective history, and identity quest in Richard Powers's The time of our singing; title: ch. 5. The experience of and about history : the multicultural dimension of subjective history-making in The Lazarus project by Aleksandar Hemon and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides; title: ch. 6. Moral challenges of history in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Home.