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
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-240) and index
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Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Late Postmodernism and the Literary Field; 2 The Novel and the Death of Literature; 3 Jonathan Franzen, Oprah Winfrey, and the Future of the Social Novel; 4 Late Postmodernism and Cultural Memory; 5 Pathologies of the Public Sphere; 6 Late Postmodernism and the Utopian Imagination; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
