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Narrating postmodern time and space

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Francese defines postmodern writing and distinguishes it from modernist prose by citing the examples of two modern and three postmodern authors: Italo Calvino, John Barth, Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, and Antonio Tabucchi. While the modernist narratives of Calvino and Barth attempt to assimilate what is other, the postmodern narratives of Morrison, Doctorow, and Tabucchi recognize diversities that cannot be assimilated, instead seeking out external, communicative sources of authentication.

To a great extent, these changes in narrative strategy are a response to changes in real living conditions, namely, our modified perception of space and the radical shortening of time horizons caused by recent revolutionary advances in information technology.

Although Morrison, Doctorow, and Tabucchi vary in their stylisitic responses to these changes, their narratives propose a collective recovery of the past into a future-oriented present and serve as examples of how literature can intervene in history, rather than merely reflecting and acquiescing to it.

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203

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1997, State University of New York Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192) and index.

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Albany

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Dewey Decimal Class
809/.9113
Library of Congress
PN771 .F68 1997, PN771.F68 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 203 p. ;
Number of pages
203

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Open Library
OL1010901M
Internet Archive
narratingpostmod0000fran
ISBN 10
079143513X, 0791435148
LCCN
96051476
OCLC/WorldCat
36084117
LibraryThing
6315832
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2124166
2698923

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OL3355731W

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