Revolution : the event in postwar fiction /

Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century-still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age-and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties. In Revolution, Matthew Wilkens argues that pos...

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Main Author: Wilkens, Matthew, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781421420882
1421420880
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The structure of literary revolutions
  • Allegory
  • Event
  • The encyclopedia as object and metaphor
  • Failure and novelty in postwar fiction
  • Allegory, encyclopedism, and postwar america
  • Ellison's impure manifesto
  • Integration and disorder in The golden notebook.