“My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love”. J ohn Adams, Robert Coover, Philip K. Dick: the Cold War and its space of Historicity

Authors

  • Giuseppe Episcopo University of Naples Federico II

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7480

Keywords:

historical novel, Lukács, Koselleck, Lyotard, end of history

Abstract

The paper looks at three texts that come from three different cultural contexts – mainstream, cultured music, “pulp” – and adopt three different representational strategies in tackling the theme of the Cold War: narrative transfiguration, dramatization, indirect mimesis. The main aim of this paper is to examine the entanglement between the Cold War representation and the representation of history. It therefore discusses the works of John Adams, Robert Coover and Philip K. Dick against the background of Lukács’ lasting contributions to the historical novel, Koselleck’s theories of historical times and Lyotard’s analysis of metanarratives.

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Author Biography

Giuseppe Episcopo, University of Naples Federico II

Giuseppe Episcopo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Naples Federico II and has been a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and an Associate Lecturer at St. Andrews University. He published a monograph on Stefano D'Arrigo and Thomas Pynchon, L'eredità della fine (2016), and one on Carlo Emilio Gadda, Macchine d'espressione (2018); he translated into Italian Franco Moretti’s Distant Reading (A una certa distanza, 2020), and Fredric Jameson’s Brecht and Method (trad. 2008) and Raymond Chandler (trad. 2017). He also edited the Italian translation of the Stanford's Literary Lab Pamphlets in Digital Humanities (La letteratura in Laboratorio, 2019) - and the collective volume Metahistorical Narratives & Scientific Metafictions (2015).

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Published

2020-12-21

How to Cite

Episcopo, G. (2020). “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love”. J ohn Adams, Robert Coover, Philip K. Dick: the Cold War and its space of Historicity. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (4), 39–64. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7480

Issue

No. 4 (2020): The representation of the Cold war in literature and the arts (1947-1989)

Section

Monographic section I

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