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Jarring witnesses : modern fiction and the representation of history / Robert Holton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Postmodern theoryPublication details: New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585102856
  • 9780585102856
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jarring witnesses.DDC classification:
  • 809.3/9358 20
LOC classification:
  • PN3503 .H57 1994eb
Other classification:
  • 17.86
  • HG 435
  • HU 1819
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. History and narrative: Historical narrative and the politics of point of view -- Common sense and historical narrative -- pt. 2. Modernism and orthodoxy: Nostromo and the "torrent of rubbish" -- Parade's end: "Has the British this or that come to this!" -- Absalom, Absalom!: the "nigger in the woodpile" -- pt. 3. Postmodernism and heterodoxy: Bearing witness: African-American women's fiction -- V: in the rathouse of history with Thomas Pynchon.
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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
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"Earlier versions of chapters 6 and 7 have appeared in Textual practice and English studies in Canada"--Title page verso.

"First published 1994 by Harvester Wheatsheaf ... Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-296) and index.

Second ISBN from label with bar code on p. [4] of cover.

pt. 1. History and narrative: Historical narrative and the politics of point of view -- Common sense and historical narrative -- pt. 2. Modernism and orthodoxy: Nostromo and the "torrent of rubbish" -- Parade's end: "Has the British this or that come to this!" -- Absalom, Absalom!: the "nigger in the woodpile" -- pt. 3. Postmodernism and heterodoxy: Bearing witness: African-American women's fiction -- V: in the rathouse of history with Thomas Pynchon.

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