Title Postmodern counternarratives : irony and audience in the novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O'Brien / Christopher Donovan

Published New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) Series Literary criticism and cultural theory Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Postmodernism, Liberal Ironism, and Contemporary Storytelling; 2 Social Realism in the Postmodern Age; 3 "Middle Class Realism" and the Acceptance of the Reader; 4 Morality and Solidarity in the Ironic Novel; 5 "Evil is the Movement toward Void": Self-Absorption, Play, and the Ambiguous Gift of Genre in the Early Novels of Don DeLillo; 6 "Entropy and Efflorescence": To and From the Zero in the Early Novels of Paul Auster; 7 "Nobody Would Believe a Word": Sincerity amid Terror in the Early Novels of Tim O'Brien Summary This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-239) and index Notes Print version record Subject Johnson, Charles, 1948- -- Technique Auster, Paul, 1947- -- Technique O'Brien, Tim, 1946- -- Technique DeLillo, Don -- Technique SUBJECT Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948- cct Auster, Paul., 1947- cct O'Brien, Tim, 1946- cct DeLillo, Don. cct Auster, Paul, 1947- fast DeLillo, Don fast Johnson, Charles, 1948- fast O'Brien, Tim, 1946- fast Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism Authors and readers -- United States Reader-response criticism. Irony in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States. Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism. Authors and readers -- United States. Reader-response criticism. Irony in literature. American fiction Authors and readers Experimental fiction, American Irony in literature Postmodernism (Literature) Reader-response criticism Technique United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0203005996 9780203005996

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