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Author:

Löffler, Philipp, 1981- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015046669

Title:

Pluralist desires : contemporary historical fiction and the end of the Cold War / Philipp Löffler.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

182 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Cold War in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
American literature.
Cold War in literature.
Historical fiction, American.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The uses of history: From nineteenth-century historicism to twenty-first-century pluralism -- "No longer and not yet": Don Delillo and the aftermath of the Cold War -- After race: Body language and historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy -- "A singular act of invention": Storytelling, pluralism, and Philip Roth's American trilogy -- Lukacsian aesthetics, self-creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the dark.

Series:

European studies in North American literature and culture

ISBN:

1571139524
9781571139528

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908084139

LCCN:

2015021120

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)