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This is what a collection of essays should be: wide-ranging, superbly edited, and packed with the work of first-rate scholars. This is essential reading for anyone interested in postmodernism, contemporary literature, and the question of how to periodize the writing of the last six decades. Timothy Melley, author, The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State Postwar/Postmodern and After is a smart, timely, and impressively comprehensive collection of essays. Anyone interested?in becoming acquainted with current trends and debates in the field of contemporary literature would do well to read this book. Michael LeMahieu, author, Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945 1975

This is what a collection of essays should be: wide-ranging, superbly edited, and packed with the work of first-rate scholars. This is essential reading for anyone interested in postmodernism, contemporary literature, and the question of how to periodize the writing of the last six decades. Timothy Melley, author, The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State

This is what a collection of essays should be: wide-ranging, superbly edited, and packed with the work of first-rate scholars. This is essential reading for anyone interested in postmodernism, contemporary literature, and the question of how to periodize the writing of the last six decades. --Timothy Melley, author, The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State Postwar/Postmodern--and After is a smart, timely, and impressively comprehensive collection of essays. Anyone interested?in becoming acquainted with current trends and debates in the field of contemporary literature would do well to read this book. --Michael LeMahieu, author, Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975 This is what a collection of essays should be: wide-ranging, superbly edited, and packed with the work of first-rate scholars. This is essential reading for anyone interested in postmodernism, contemporary literature, and the question of how to periodize the writing of the last six decades. Timothy Melley, author, The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State Postwar/Postmodern and After is a smart, timely, and impressively comprehensive collection of essays. Anyone interested?in becoming acquainted with current trends and debates in the field of contemporary literature would do well to read this book. Michael LeMahieu, author, Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945 1975

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Jason Gladstone is an instructor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. His work has appeared in Contemporary Literature, Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literature. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. Andrew Hoberek is a professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. He is the author of Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics and The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work. He lives in Columbia, Missouri, USA. Daniel Worden is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico, USA. He is the author of the award-winning Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, the editorof The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World and, with Ross Barrett, the coeditor of Oil Culture. He lives in Rochester, New York.

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