| Description |
1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Frontiers of narrative
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Frontiers of narrative.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The Story of "Me" shows that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Autofiction in an American Context -- 1. Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Powers -- 2. Rage Against the Dying of the Author: Philip Roth, Arthur Phillips, Ruth Ozeki, Salvador Plascencia, and Percival Everett -- 3. The New Journalism as the New Fiction, The New Subjectivity as The New Objectivity: Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Mark Leyner, and Bret Easton Ellis -- 4. Trauma Autofiction, Dissociation, and the Authenticity of "Real" Experience: Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Federman, Tim O'Brien and Jonathan Safran Foer -- 5. Memoir vs. Autofiction as The Story of Me vs. The Story of "Me": Philip Roth, Richard Powers, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ron Currie Jr. -- Coda -- Appendix: American Autofictions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Autobiographical fiction -- History and criticism.
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Autobiographical fiction. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Autobiography in literature.
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Autobiography in literature. |
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Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Contemporary American autofiction |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Worthington, Marjorie. Story of "me". Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018 9781496207579 (DLC) 2017058300 (OCoLC)1025368400 |
| ISBN |
9781496208736 (electronic book) |
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1496208730 (electronic book) |
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9781496208750 (electronic book) |
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1496208757 (electronic book) |
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9781496207579 |
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1496207572 |
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9781496208743 (mobi) |
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