New York Fictions: Modernity, Postmodernism, The New Modern

by Peter Brooker

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In this original study, Peter Brooker takes issue with the simplified opposition of postmodernism to modernism in accounts of the modern period. Instead, he follows the course of modernity in the spectacular example of New York, to reveal the complexities of both modernist and postmodern responses to the city.

Brooker's study refers us to the fiction of Doctorow, Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison and especially to the new urban ethnic' writing...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0582099544

ISBN13:9780582099548

Release Date:January 1995

Publisher:Routledge

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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