Powerless fictions? : : ethics, cultural critique, and American fiction in the age of postmodernism / / Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso, editor.

• TeilnehmendeR: Miguel-Alfonso, Ricardo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Postmodern studies, 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 pages) :; illustrations.

Postmodern Studies deals with (any aspect of) postmodernism, or of postmodernity and the postmodern in relation to literature.

Table of Contents

Ricardo Miguel ALFONSO: Introduction: Ethics and Contemporary Fiction -- Judith CHAMBERS: Parabolas and Parables: The Radical Ethics of Pynchon's V and Gravity's Rainbow [Thomas Pynchon] -- Gregory COMNES: The Law of the Excluded Muddle: The Ethics of Indeterminacy in A Frolic of His Own -- Richard ELDRIDGE and Paul COHEN: Art and the Transfiguration of Social Life: Gaddis on Art and Society [William Gaddis] -- Frederick M. HOLMES: The Death of the Author as Cultural Critique in London Fields [Martin Amis] -- Jerome KLINKOWITZ: Fictive Empowerment through Cultural Criticism in the Works of Walter Abish, Raymond Federmans, and Michael Stephens -- Robert A. MORACE: The Facts in Black and White: Cheever's Falconer and Wideman's Philadelphia Fire [John Cheever, John Edgar Wideman] -- Bill MULLEN: No There There: Cultural Criticism as Lost Object in Don DeLillo's Players and Running Dog [Don DeLillo] -- Daniel T. O'HARA: Becoming Other: The Conscience of the Reader in Late James [Henry James] -- Jerry A. VARSAVA: Totality Lost; Or, Fredric Jameson and the Social Site of American Postmodern Fiction -- Joseph J. WALDMEIR: Rabbit's Four-Stage Quest to Learn the Way and Figure Out the Destination -- Then Get There [John Updike].