Sexual difference in postmodern American fiction : Thomas Pynchon, Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason and Jayne Anne Phillips

The dissertation presents an analysis of the construction of sexual difference in selected works of postmodern American fiction. The concept of postmodernism is used here to connote those texts which articulate a dialectic between the aesthetics of modernism and that of American consumer culture. Th...

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Main Author: Price, Joanna
Published: University of Sussex 1992
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605158