Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Legacies of the Avant-Garde

AvRachele Dini

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-27
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:351 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:253
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349954964

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Rachele Dini teaches at the Foundation for International Education and in the English Department at University College London, UK. She has a BA Hons from Cambridge University, an MA from King’s College London, and a PhD from University College London, UK.

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Introduction.- Chapter One: In search of an epiphany: Redeeming waste and irrupting into the everyday.- Chapter Two: Samuel Beckett’s personnes perdues: Human waste in The Trilogy, Texts for Nothing, and How it I.- Chapter Three: Waste in Donald Barthelme, J.G Ballard, and William Gaddis.- Chapter Four: “Most of our longings go unfulfilled”: DeLillo’s historiographical readings of landfills and nuclear fallout.- Conclusion.- Bibliography