Stephen J. Burn, Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism

Although there have been several important studies on Jonathan Franzen’s work published in the  past few years, especially after the commercial success of The Corrections, it seems there has not been any book-length study on the complexity of his artistic development yet. The title of Stephen J. Bur...

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Published in:European journal of American studies 2010-07
Main Author: Kusnír, Jaroslav
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fiction
Franzen, Jonathan
Intertextuality
Modernism
Narrative techniques
Novels
Postmodernism
System theory
Writers
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Summary:Although there have been several important studies on Jonathan Franzen’s work published in the  past few years, especially after the commercial success of The Corrections, it seems there has not been any book-length study on the complexity of his artistic development yet. The title of Stephen J. Burn’s study of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction implies at least three things—that there is an end of postmodernism, that this book will be a study of Franzen’s latest works in the period of “the end of po...
ISSN:1991-9336
1991-9336
DOI:10.4000/ejas.8508