The story of "me" : contemporary American autofiction / Marjorie Worthington.
| Author/creator |
Worthington, Marjorie |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018. |
| Description | x, 217 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Portion of title | Contemporary American autofiction |
| Series | Frontiers of narrative |
| Contents | Introduction: Autofiction in an American Context -- 1. Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Powers -- 2. Rage Against the Dying of the Author: Philip Roth, Arthur Phillips, Ruth Ozeki, Salvador Plascencia, and Percival Everett -- 3. The New Journalism as the New Fiction, The New Subjectivity as The New Objectivity: Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Mark Leyner, and Bret Easton Ellis -- 4. Trauma Autofiction, Dissociation, and the Authenticity of "Real" Experience: Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Federman, Tim O'Brien and Jonathan Safran Foer -- 5. Memoir vs. Autofiction as The Story of Me vs. The Story of "Me": Philip Roth, Richard Powers, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ron Currie Jr. -- Coda -- Appendix: American Autofictions. |
| Abstract | "The Story of "Me" shows that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017058300 |
| ISBN | 9781496207579 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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