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James Giles - Spaces of Violence, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Spaces of Violence

Av James Giles

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In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks’s Affliction, Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God, Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle, Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Don DeLillo’s End Zone, Denis Johnson’s Angels, Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.A concluding chapter extends the focus to texts by Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Chuck Palahniuk, who treat the destructive effects of violence on family structures.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-06-02
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 353 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 230
  • Förlag: The University of Alabama Press
  • ISBN: 9780817359928
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James R. Giles is Presidential Teaching Professor of English at Northern Illinois University and author of eight books, including Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence and Confronting the Horror: The Novels of Nelson Algren.

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I enjoyed reading The Spaces of Violence and learned a lot from it. . . . One of the most important contributions it makes to the wider discussion of violence and American literature is its insistence that violence is not a characteristic of urban life only, but permeates all regions—urban, suburban, and rural."—Robert Rebein, author of Hicks, Tribes, & Dirty Realists: American Fiction after Postmodernism"Giles explores in literary terms our national desire ‘to immerse ourselves in gore."—American Book ReviewThe Spaces of Violence is a welcome contribution to scholarship on American preoccupation with cyclical carnage."—Rocky Mountain Review

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