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«We Search the Past … for Our Own Lost Selves.»

Representations of Historical Experience in Recent American Fiction

Marta Koval author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:31st Jan '13

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The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. Using the concepts of memory and experience, the author points at the ways in which subjective history has been created in the new «novel about history», written by such authors as William Gass, Richard Powers, Marilynne Robinson, Nicholson Baker, Aleksandar Hemon, and Jeffrey Eugenides. Theoretically, the study has been inspired by the works of Aleida Assmann, Hayden White, Reinhart Koselleck, Frank Ankersmit, and Dominick LaCapra.

ISBN: 9783631626108

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 440g

255 pages

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