The conflict revisited : the Second World War in post-postmodern fiction /

This book traces the development of literary poetics after postmodernism and outlines the most important features of what is defined here as «post-postmodernism». This new literary form simultaneously recovers the characteristics of the traditional novel and abandons the ironic approach of postmoder...

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Main Author: Malvestio, Marco (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021]
Series:New comparative criticism ; v. 10.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Global War, Global Literature
  • Introduction: Post-Postmodernism and the Second World War
  • Board Games, Serial Killers and the Banality of Evil: The Part about Roberto Bolano
  • A Collection of Parables: William T. Vollman's Europe Central
  • 'A Real Morality Play': Jonathan Littel's The Kindly Ones
  • Conclusion: The Second World War and the Post-Postmodern Novel.