Rebirth of the Nouveau Roman: 9/11 as a Crisis of Confidence in American Literary Aesthetics
This article argues that 9/11 created a crisis of confidence amongst writers of American fiction by problematizing literary realism’s claims to verisimiltude and so undermining it as a plausible and credible mode of fiction. Surveying the post-9/11 debate over the merits and shortcomings of realism,...
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Milano University Press
2011-09-01
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| Series: | Altre Modernità |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/1299 |