Häftad, Engelska, 2024
Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
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Beskrivning
Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction examines contemporary novels profoundly shaped by a sense of historical consciousness. Authors including Ben Lerner, Colson Whitehead, Dana Spiotta, Hari Kunzru and Garth Greenwell each use flashbacks, historical parallels and non-sequential narrative arrangements to emphasise the re-emergence, in a twenty-first-century context, of historical structures and circumstances. This study explores how these frequent moments of temporal slippage amount to a 'falling out of time', as characters are forced to confront the past crises which continue to exert pressure on their own contemporary moment.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2024-05-31
- Mått: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
- Vikt: 326 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 208
- Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN: 9781474463454
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Alexandra Lawrie is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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'Always historicize!’ Fredric Jameson taught us, and Alexandra Lawrie does so compellingly in her account of a turn-of-the-millennium generation of US novelists who have themselves taken Jameson’s lesson to heart. Sampling half a dozen or so representative writers, some of them familiar, others less so, Lawrie illuminates the contemporary art of fiction by adeptly interweaving attentive close reading with contextualizing historical information.
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