Surviving in the Particular? Uni(versali)ty and Multiplicity in the Novels of Richard Powers

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22 mai 2007

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Heinz Ickstadt, « Surviving in the Particular? Uni(versali)ty and Multiplicity in the Novels of Richard Powers », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.1119


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Although some of the ‘masters’ of postmodernism are still producing ‘postmodern’ narratives (e.g. Robert Coover with his recent Lucky Pierre), contemporary American fiction has largely moved ‘back’ into realism’s territory of the everyday that the postmodernists had been so determined to abandon. It is true that, as in the case of Don DeLillo, this new realism is not grounded in any ontological notion of the ‘real’ but in an experienced ‘hyper-reality’ of surface and of image. Yet it makes ne...

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