02867nam a2200445 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020004200112020003900154020004100193020003800234020002700272040002100299035002100320043001200341050002500353082001800378100002800396245010500424260006000529300001700589504006600606505041600672520066901088533015201757600005501909600005101964600005902015650005802074650004702132650002502179650002802204655002902232710001702261856012602278999001702404ebr10554873CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||110308s2011    vau     sb    001 0 eng d  z  2011008422  z9780813931616 (cloth acid-free paper)  z0813931614 (cloth acid-free paper)  z9780813931623 (pbk. acid-free paper)  z0813931622 (pbk. acid-free paper)  z9780813931661 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)785928180  an-us---14aPS374.P64bG7 2011eb04a813/.54092221 aGrausam, Daniel,d1975-10aOn endingsh[electronic resource] :bAmerican postmodern fiction and the Cold War /cDaniel Grausam.  aCharlottesville :bUniversity of Virginia Press,c2011.  aviii, 196 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index.0 aIntroduction: 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.  aWhat 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2011.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.10aBarth, John,d1930-xCriticism and interpretation.10aPynchon, ThomasxCriticism and interpretation.10aPowers, Richard,d1957-xCriticism and interpretation. 0aAmerican fictionxHistory and criticismxTheory, etc. 0aPostmodernism (Literature)zUnited States. 0aCold WarxInfluence. 0aCold War in literature. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10554873zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c91441d91441