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Continuum Literary Studies: Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism by Stephen J. Burn (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-101847062482
ISBN-139781847062482
eBay Product ID (ePID)64094607
Product Key Features
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameJonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism
SubjectGeneral, American / General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorStephen J. Burn
SeriesContinuum Literary Studies
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight15.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2009-291374
Reviews'Unsurprisingly, Burn spends most time and space on The Corrections , the novel to which Franzen most owes his current fame.His argument here is that previous critics have not appreciated the book's careful narrative construction and the challenges it offers to conventional ways of understanding literary character in particular.Given that Franzen's novel was heralded by many as a return to character in contemporary writing, Burn's intervention here is significant, and his section on "Fictions of the Self" is probably the most valuable piece of Corrections criticism yet...Matching close reading with literary-historical breadth, Burn has exploited a large range of scholarly methods and techniques, and in doing so has created an impressively twenty-first century critical study of a twenty-first-century author.'- Journal of American Studies , 2009, "Burn's book is a model first study of a contemporary novelist-rigorous, learned, thorough, inventive, and lucidly written. Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism is also the best commentary I know on the successors of Gaddis, Pynchon, and DeLillo-Powers, Wallace, Vollmann, and, of course, Franzen." - Tom LeClair, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of English, University of Cincinnati, USA, 'Burn's study produces a fascinating case study of how difficult it has become to brand one's self as a "literary" author in an age in which literature has become another kind of multinational capitalist product.' American Literary History, 5th July 2010;, 'Burn's analysis is a fine, illuminative and perhaps even provocative study not only of Franzen's fiction but that of his post-postmodern contemporaries, as well as the literature of the preceding generation of writers.' European journal of American studies , 5th July 2010, 'Burn's study produces a fascinating case study of how difficult it has become to brand one's self as a "literary" author in an age in which literature has become another kind of multinational capitalist product.' American Literary History , 5th July 2010;, 'Unsurprisingly, Burn spends most time and space on The Corrections, the novel to which Franzen most owes his current fame.His argument here is that previous critics have not appreciated the book's careful narrative construction and the challenges it offers to conventional ways of understanding literary character in particular.Given that Franzen's novel was heralded by many as a return to character in contemporary writing, Burn's intervention here is significant, and his section on "Fictions of the Self" is probably the most valuable piece of Corrections criticism yet...Matching close reading with literary-historical breadth, Burn has exploited a large range of scholarly methods and techniques, and in doing so has created an impressively twenty-first century critical study of a twenty-first-century author.'- Journal of American Studies, 2009, "Burn's book is a model first study of a contemporary novelist--rigorous, learned, thorough, inventive, and lucidly written. Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism is also the best commentary I know on the successors of Gaddis, Pynchon, and DeLillo--Powers, Wallace, Vollmann, and, of course, Franzen." - Tom LeClair, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of English, University of Cincinnati, USA, 'Unsurprisingly, Burn spends most time and space on The Corrections , the novel to which Franzen most owes his current fame. His argument here is that previous critics have not appreciated the book's careful narrative construction and the challenges it offers to conventional ways of understanding literary character in particular. Given that Franzen's novel was heralded by many as a return to character in contemporary writing, Burn's intervention here is significant, and his section on "Fictions of the Self" is probably the most valuable piece of Corrections criticism yet...Matching close reading with literary-historical breadth, Burn has exploited a large range of scholarly methods and techniques, and in doing so has created an impressively twenty-first century critical study of a twenty-first-century author.' - Journal of American Studies , 2009, "Burn's book is a model first study of a contemporary novelist--rigorous, learned, thorough, inventive, and lucidly written. Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism is also the best commentary I know on the successors of Gaddis, Pynchon, and DeLillo--Powers, Wallace, Vollmann, and, of course, Franzen.&" - Tom LeClair, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of English, University of Cincinnati, USA, 'Burn's analysis is a fine, illuminative and perhaps even provocative study not only of Franzen's fiction but that of his post-postmodern contemporaries, as well as the literature of the preceding generation of writers.' European journal of American studies, 5th July 2010
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813.54
Table Of Content1. Jonathan Franzen and the End of Postmodernism 2. In the Concrete Waste Land: The Twenty-Seventh City3. Midnight in the System Rooms: Strong Motion4. Millenial Fictions: The CorrectionsConclusionBibliographyIndex
SynopsisFranzen is fast becoming the subject of increased academic attention but this monograph is the first comprehensive study of his work. >, Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis of each of Franzen's novels - from his early work to the major success of The Corrections - identifying key sources, delineating important narrative strategies, and revealing how Franzen's themes are reinforced by each novel's structure. Supplementing this analysis with comparisons to key contemporaries, David Foster Wallace and Richard Powers, Burn suggests how Franzen's work is indicative of the direction of experimental American fiction in the wake of the so-called end of postmodernism., Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis of each of Franzen's novels - from his early work to the major success of The Corrections - identifying key sources, delineating important narrative strategies, and revealing how Franzen's themes are reinforced by each novel's structure. Supplementing this analysis with comparisons to key contemporaries, David Foster Wallace and Richard Powers, Burn suggests how Franzen's work is indicative of the direction of experimental American fiction in the wake of the so-called end of postmodernism. >
LC Classification NumberPS3556.R352
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