From the Civil War to the apocalypse : postmodern history and American fiction /
"Recent postmodern theorists have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction ... In addressing the postmodernist claim that history works no differently than fiction, Timothy Parrish rejects the implication that...
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Amherst :
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Absalom, Absalom!: Faulkner's true history of the South
- Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian : the first and last book of America
- Off Faulkner's plantation : Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon
- Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : drawing a line in the sands of history
- History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan : Joan Didion's Democracy and Don Delillo's Underworld
- Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro: postcolonial America.
