Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an Age of Inflation

by Charles Newman

Book Overview

The Post-Modern Aura is Charles Newman's classic and incendiary polemic about the "Post-Modern" attitude in fiction, culture, and sensibility. In it, he challenges the "revolutionary" claims of avant-garde novelists and literary theorists as well as the arguments of neoconservatives, neorealists, and advocates of "moral fiction." Newman argues that neither of these groups confront the unprecedented break with tradition entailed by an economics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810106698
• ISBN13: 9780810106697
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"