American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past

1. Introduction: Representing History, Re-presenting the Past
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2. ‘Nothing but words’: Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover’s The Public Burning
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3. ‘There is a world inside the world’: Don DeLillo’s Libra and Latent History
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4. Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History
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5. ‘A long list of regrettable actions’: William T. Vollmann’s Symbolic History
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6. ‘There is only narrative’: E.L. Doctorow and Postmodernism
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7. Conclusion: Moving on from Postmodernism
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Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, US History, North American Literature