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Author:

Parrish, Timothy, 1964-

Title:

From the Civil War to the apocalypse : postmodern history and American fiction / Timothy Parrish.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 308 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
History in literature.
Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-301) and index.

Contents:

Absalom, absalom!: Faulkner's true history of the south -- Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian : the first and last book of America -- Off Faulkner's plantation : Toni Morrison's beloved and song of Solomon -- Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : drawing a line in the Sands of history -- History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan : Joan Didion's democracy and Don Delillo's underworld -- Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro: postcolonial America.

ISBN:

1558496262 (alk. paper)
9781558496262 (alk. paper)
1558496270 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558496279 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007024294

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)