Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture.

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"[Jeremy Green] offers a canny, pointed, and articulate assessment of the state of 'postmodern fiction' on the hinge between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."-Patrick O'Donnell, Michigan State University

"Professor Green's Late Postmodernism should be welcomed by those who still regard literary fiction as one of the great American art forms. It makes a compelling argument for the novel's prospects in the new media age." - Joseph M. Conte, University of Buffalo

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JEREMY GREEN is Assistant Professor in the English Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

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Book Title: Late Postmodernism
Book Subtitle: American Fiction at the Millennium
Authors: Jeremy Green
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980403
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6632-2Published: 15 June 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52943-8Published: 23 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8040-3Published: 12 May 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 254
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postmodern Philosophy

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