02867nam a2200445 a 4500 ebr10554873 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110308s2011 vau sb 001 0 eng d 2011008422 9780813931616 (cloth acid-free paper) 0813931614 (cloth acid-free paper) 9780813931623 (pbk. acid-free paper) 0813931622 (pbk. acid-free paper) 9780813931661 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)785928180 n-us--- PS374.P64 G7 2011eb 813/.5409 22 Grausam, Daniel, 1975- On endings [electronic resource] : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War / Daniel Grausam. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. viii, 196 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index. Introduction: On endings -- Institutionalizing postmodernism: John Barth and modern war -- The Crying of Lot 49, circa 1642; or, Pynchon, periodicity, and total war -- The time of the nation, the time of the state -- Unthinking the thinkability of the unthinkable -- Trying to understand end zone -- The dominant tense: Richard Powers and late postmodernism -- Afterword: Critical conventions/postmodern canons. What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Barth, John, 1930- Criticism and interpretation. Pynchon, Thomas Criticism and interpretation. Powers, Richard, 1957- Criticism and interpretation. American fiction History and criticism Theory, etc. Postmodernism (Literature) United States. Cold War Influence. Cold War in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10554873 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 91441 91441