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5 - History and Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

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Timothy Parrish
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Paula Geyh
Paula Geyh
Affiliation:
Yeshiva University, New York
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The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction , pp. 81 - 96
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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Berkhofer, Robert. Beyond the Great Story. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Harlan, David. The Degradation of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Hobsbawm, , Eric, J. On History. New York: Norton, 1997.Google Scholar
Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1988.Google Scholar
Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 1989.Google Scholar
Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” New Left Review 146 (1984): 53–92.Google Scholar
LaCapra, Dominick. History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Parrish, Timothy. From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Schama, Simon. Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations. New York: Vintage Random, 1992.Google Scholar
White, Hayden. Tropics of Discourse. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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  • History and Fiction
  • Edited by Paula Geyh, Yeshiva University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction
  • Online publication: 18 May 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316216514.007
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  • History and Fiction
  • Edited by Paula Geyh, Yeshiva University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction
  • Online publication: 18 May 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316216514.007
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  • History and Fiction
  • Edited by Paula Geyh, Yeshiva University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction
  • Online publication: 18 May 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316216514.007
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