We Search the Past ... for Our Own Lost Selves. : Representations of Historical Experience in Recent American Fiction.
Title:
We Search the Past ... for Our Own Lost Selves. : Representations of Historical Experience in Recent American Fiction.
Author:
Koval, Marta.
ISBN:
9783653027082
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Series:
Gdansk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture ; v.3
Gdansk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. History that Matters: Some New Ways of Problematizing History in Fiction -- 1. New subjectivity in the humanities and in literature: tradition and novelty -- 2. From cultural memory and experience to subjective history -- 3. The novel about history as a mode of fictional representation of the past -- 4. Historical event as a narrative category -- Chapter II. Subjective History in William Gass's Novel "The Tunnel" or Side-Effects of Postmodern Diversity -- Chapter III. Visual Tools of Subjective History-Making -- 1. Micro- and macro-historical dimensions of art and its interpretation in Richard Powers's novel "Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance" -- 2. The ethical dimension of images and "commodified" memory in Nicholson Baker's novel "Checkpoint" -- Chapter IV. "Holding Out for a Hint of Harmony": Music, Subjective History, and Identity Quest in Richard Powers's "The Time of Our Singing" -- Chapter V. The Experience of and about History: The Multicultural Dimension of Subjective History-Making in "The Lazarus Project" by Aleksandar Hemon and "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides -- 1. Glimpses of the past as mirrors of the present: subjective experience of history in "The Lazarus Project" by Aleksandar Hemon -- 2. Quest for identity and subjunctive history in Eugenides's "Middlesex" -- Chapter VI. Moral Challenges of History in Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead" and "Home" -- Conclusions -- Works Cited.
Abstract:
The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. Using the concepts of memory and experience, the author points at the ways in which subjective history has been created in the new novel about history, written by such authors as William Gass, Richard Powers, Marilynne Robinson, Nicholson Baker, Aleksandar Hemon, and Jeffrey Eugenides. Theoretically, the study has been inspired by the works of Aleida Assmann, Hayden White, Reinhart Koselleck, Frank Ankersmit, and Dominick LaCapra.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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