Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of a return to realism, it also evidences recurring themes of postmodernism, such as alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self-reflexiveness.
| ISBN: | 9781138967625 |
| Publication date: | 29th February 2016 |
| Author: | Robert Durante |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Series: | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |