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JONATHAN FRANZEN AT THE END OF POSTMODERNISM IBD

CONTINNUUM-3PL
10 / 2011
9781441191007
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Sinopsis

Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists.á This book is theáfirst full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism.á Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis of each of FranzenâÇÖs novels - from his early work to the major success of The Corrections - identifying key sources, delineating important narrative strategies, and revealing how FranzenâÇÖs themes are reinforced by each novelâÇÖs structure. Supplementing this analysis with comparisons to key contemporaries, David Foster Wallace and Richard Powers, Burn suggests how FranzenâÇÖs work is indicative of the direction of experimental American fiction in the wake of the so-called end of postmodernism.