Late Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium

by Jeremy Green

Book Overview

Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349529435
• ISBN13: 9781349529438
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"