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Jonathan Franzen at the end of postmodernism

By Jonathan , Franzén , Jonathan - roman (genre littéraire); Burn , Stephen; Franzen; Franzen

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic;Continuum
Year
2008
ISBN
1847062482, 978-1-8470-6248-2, 9781441191007, 1441191003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
559 kB (572080 bytes)
Series
Bloomsbury Literary Studies;Continuum literary studies
Edition
1
Pages
159\176
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

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

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