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What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War.

Barth, John --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Powers, Richard --- Cold War in literature --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Cold War --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- American literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Influence --- Barth, John, --- Powers, Richard, --- Bart, Dz︠h︡on, --- Pinchon, Tomas --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- United States --- Criticism and interpretation --- Paouers, Ritsarnt, --- Παουερς, Ριτσαρντ, --- Cold War in literature. --- Influence.

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Fiction --- Thematology --- Film --- American literature --- Cold War --- Cold War in literature --- Dr. Folamour (Film) --- Dr. Strangelove (Film) --- Dr. Strangelove (motion picture) --- Guerre froide --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur --- Oorlog [Koude ] --- Science fiction, American --- American fiction --- Science fiction films --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- History and criticism --- Science fiction [American ] --- 20th century --- Heinlein, Robert Anson --- Criticism and interpretation --- Anderson, Poul --- Pohl, Frederick --- Miller, Walter M. --- Hoban, Russell --- Wolfe, Bernard --- Kornbluth, C.M. --- Wylie, Philip --- Szilard, Leo --- SCIENCE-FICTION AMERICAINE --- FILMS DE SCIENCE-FICTION --- GUERRE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- GUERRE ET LITTERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick—a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication—William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably suited as a foundation for a "New Americanist" critique of the ideology based on Puritan origins that was codified in the canon established by "Old Americanist" critics from F. O. Matthiessen to Lionel Trilling. But Spanos also shows, with the novel still as his focus, the limitations of this "New Americanist" discourse and its failure to escape the totalizing imperial perspective it finds in its predecessor.Combining Heideggerian ontology with a sociopolitical perspective derived primarily from Foucault, the reading of Moby-Dick that forms the center of this book demonstrates that the traditional identification of Melville’s novel as a "romance" renders it complicitous in the discourse of the Cold War. At the same time, Spanos shows how New Americanist criticism overlooks the degree to which Moby-Dick anticipates not only America’s self-representation as the savior of the world against communism, but also the emergent postmodern and anti-imperial discourse deployed against such an image. Spanos’s critique reveals the extraordinary relevance of Melville’s novel as a post-Cold War text, foreshadowing not only the self-destructive end of the historical formation of the American cultural identity in the genocidal assault on Vietnam, but also the reactionary labeling of the current era as "the end of history."This provocative and challenging study presents not only a new view of the development of literary history in the United States, but a devastating critique of the genealogy of ideology in the American cultural establishment.

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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the poetry and legal decisions as part of a far wider anxiety about privacy that erupted across the social, cultural, and political spectrum during this period. She explores the panic over the "death of privacy" aroused by broad changes in postwar culture: the growth of suburbia, the advent of television, the popularity of psychoanalysis, the arrival of computer databases, and the spectacles of confession associated with McCarthyism.Examining this interchange between poetry and law at its most intense moments of reflection in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, Deborah Nelson produces a rhetorical analysis of a privacy concept integral to postwar America's self-definition and to bedrock contradictions in Cold War ideology. Nelson argues that the desire to stabilize privacy in a constitutional right and the movement toward confession in postwar American poetry were not simply manifestations of the anxiety about privacy. Supreme Court justices and confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, W. D. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath were redefining the nature of privacy itself. Close reading of the poetry alongside the Supreme Court's shifting definitions of privacy in landmark decisions reveals a broader and deeper cultural metaphor at work.

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