American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction

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American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction Jaroslav Kusnir. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2007.

Increasingly, European scholars are reading popular culture for its effect on so-called elite literature (and other arts) and finding ways to tip the edge for further analysis. Kusnir's examination is a good and fruitful example. He uses such authors as Robert Coover Donald Barthelme, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, and Richard Brautigan, writing "postmodern narrative strategies, techniques and tropes, especially postmodern parody, irony, metafiction, fragmentation and juxtaposition of reality and fantasy, to undermine traditional formulas, genres and kinds of …