Paul Auster's Postmodernity [Hardcover]

This book focuses upon the literary and autobiographical writings of American novelist Paul Auster, investigating his literary postmodernity in relation to a full range of his writings. Martin addresses Austers evocation of a range of postmodern notions, such as the duplicitous art of self-invention, the role of chance and contingency, authorial authenticity and accountability, urban dislocation, and the predominance of duality.

Preface

Chapter One: Writing, Self-Invention, Memory: The Residual Modernism of Paul Austers Postmodernity

Chapter Two: Our Lives Are No More Than the Sum of Manifold Contingencies : Paul Austers Ambiguous Postmodern Philosophy

Chapter Three: Every Man is the Author of his Own Life : Postmodern Life-Writing and the Duplicity of Self-Invention

Chapter Four: Dislocation, Ambiguity, Indeterminacy: The Postmodernity of The New York Trilogy

Chapter Five: Postmodern Modes of Social Identity: Paul Austers Evocation of Urban Dislocation, Estranged Solitude, Collective Diversity

Chapter Six: The Authority of Authorship: The Ambiguities of Life-Writing in Leviathan

Notes

Bibliography

Index

This book focuses upon the literary and autobiographical writings of American novelist Paul Auster, investigating his literary postmodernity in relation to a full range of his writings. Martin addresses Austers evocation of a range of postmodern notions, such as the duplicitous art of self-invention, the role of chance and contingency, authorial authenticity and accountability, urban dislocation, and the predominance of duality.

Brendan Martin was awarded a doctlƒ—