Late Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium

by Jeremy Green

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 decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture.

246 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2005

Reviews

[A L]

This brought The Lost Scrapbook to my attention so I'm forever grateful.

[Alfredo Suárez Palacios · Rating 3 out of 5]

Está bien, a veces los análisis de ciertas obras pueden perderte el interés, pero a modo de recapitulación a comienzos del siglo sobre el estado y las diferentes etapas de la literatura llamada post-moderna y post-posmoderna, es muy útil. No miente.