Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism Paperback / softback
by Stephen J. (University of Glasgow, UK) Burn
Part of the Continuum Literary Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis of each of Franzen's novels - from his early work to the major success of The Corrections - identifying key sources, delineating important narrative strategies, and revealing how Franzen's themes are reinforced by each novel's structure.
Supplementing this analysis with comparisons to key contemporaries, David Foster Wallace and Richard Powers, Burn suggests how Franzen's work is indicative of the direction of experimental American fiction in the wake of the so-called end of postmodernism.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:29/12/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781441191007
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:29/12/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781441191007
