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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2012
    08 October 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511816949
    9780521861571
    9780521679572
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511816949
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.51kg, 240 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.39kg, 240 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the 'pioneers', Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commonplace assumptions about literature.

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    'Nicol’s continuously readable Introduction is a valuable work of reference and one which many students will find helpful.'

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