New York Fictions: Modernity, Postmodernism, The New Modern

by Peter Brooker

In this original study, Peter Brooker takes issue with the simplified opposition of postmodernism to modernism in accounts of the modern period. Instead, he follows the course of modernity in the spectacular example of New York, to reveal the complexities of both modernist and postmodern responses to the city.

Brooker's study refers us to the fiction of Doctorow, Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison and especially to the new urban ethnic' writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582099544
• ISBN13: 9780582099548
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"