Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Series:
Continuum Literary Studies
Author:
Stephen J. Burn
ISBN:
9781441191243
Related ISBNs:
9781441191007
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2019-11-02
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2008
Copyright by:
Stephen J. Burn 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction