The dialectic of self and story
Subtitle: reading and storytelling in contemporary American fiction
By: Robert Durante.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory : The interaction of text and society; Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.; Books and reading in literature.; Social problems in literature.; Storytelling in literature.; Realism in literature.; Self in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-111) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I Introduction: The Fiction in the Story and the Story in the Fiction 1; title: II The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Postmodern Text 13; title: III Toward Transcendence: Reading and Writing in Raymond Carver's Fiction 17; title: IV Reading the Landscape: Richard Ford's New Realism 37; title: V Beyond Ethnicity: Realism and Postmodernism in Louise Erdrich's Novels 53; title: VI Reading and Storytelling in Selected Fiction of the Vietnam War 71; title: VII Epilogue: An Extended Map Reading of Contemporary American Fiction 97.