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Author:

Savu, Laura E., 1973-

Title:

Postmortem postmodernists : the afterlife of the author in recent narrative / Laura E. Savu.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

290 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Contents:

How literature is lived through: touching reading and Geoff Dyer's "Sheer rage" -- Writing in the margins of an "endless novel" -- Testamentary fictions: revisiting Peter Ackroyd's The last testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton -- The "crooked business" of storytelling: the ethics of authorship and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs -- The buried life: distancing and displacement in Colm Tóibín's The master -- Stories within stories: Virginia Woolf among other artists -- Epilogue: the sense of a beginning, or the future past of postmodernism.

ISBN:

0838641814 (alk. paper)
9780838641811 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008022279

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)