Surviving in the Particular? Uni(versali)ty and Multiplicity in the Novels of Richard Powers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12997223 |
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| Authors | Heinz Ickstadt (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336 |
| Publisher | European Association for American Studies (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ejas.1119 |
| OpenAlex | W1981941451 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Although some of the ‘masters’ of postmodernism are still producing ‘postmodern’ narratives (e.g. Robert Coover with his recent Lucky Pierre), contemporary American fiction has largely moved ‘back’ into realism’s territory of the everyday that the postmodernists had been so determined to abandon. It is true that, as in the case of Don DeLillo, this new realism is not grounded in any ontological notion of the ‘real’ but in an experienced ‘hyper-reality’ of surface and of image. Yet it makes ne
Art · Genealogy · Literature · Multiplicity (mathematics · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · History · Mathematics · Narrative Theory and Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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