| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Frontiers of narrative |
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Frontiers of narrative.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Autofiction in an American Context -- 1. Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Powers -- 2. Rage Against the Dying of the Author: Philip Roth, Arthur Phillips, Ruth Ozeki, Salvador Plascencia, and Percival Everett -- 3. The New Journalism as the New Fiction, The New Subjectivity as The New Objectivity: Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Mark Leyner, and Bret Easton Ellis -- 4. Trauma Autofiction, Dissociation, and the Authenticity of "Real" Experience: Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Federman, Tim O'Brien and Jonathan Safran Foer -- 5. Memoir vs. Autofiction as The Story of Me vs. The Story of "Me": Philip Roth, Richard Powers, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ron Currie Jr. -- Coda -- Appendix: American Autofictions |
| Summary |
"The Story of "Me" shows that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2018) |
| Subject |
Autobiographical fiction -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Autobiography in literature.
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Self in literature.
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Autobiographical fiction
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Autobiography in literature
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Self in literature
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Autobiografische Literatur
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Autobiografischer Roman
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Selbstdarstellung Motiv
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781496208736 |
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1496208730 |
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9781496208750 |
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1496208757 |
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