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The dialectic of self and story

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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Title The dialectic of self and story : reading and storytelling in contemporary American fiction / Robert Durante.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London : Routledge
Creation Date 2013
Notes First published 2001 by Routledge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Cover
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory The Interaction of Text and Society
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
I Introduction: The Fiction in the Story and the Story in the Fiction
II The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Postmodern Text
III Toward Transcendence: Reading and Writing in Raymond Carver's Fiction
IV Reading the Landscape: Richard Ford's New Realism
V Beyond Ethnicity: Realism and Postmodernism in Louise Erdrich's Novels
VI Reading and Storytelling in Selected Fiction of the Vietnam War
VII Epilogue: An Extended Map Reading of Contemporary American FictionVIII Works Cited
IX Index
Series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory : the Interaction of Text and Society
Extent 1 online resource (127 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997012410572305171
MARC RECORDS
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