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Norman Mailer's Later Fictions
Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest
Av J. Whalen-Bridge, John Whalen-Bridge
Inbunden, 2010
632 kr
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Norman Mailer s Later Fiction considers five works - Ancient Evenings (1983), Tough Guys Don t Dance (1984), Harlot's Ghost (1991), The Gospel According to the Son (1997), The Castle in the Forest (2007) - to examine, for the first time in a full volume, Mailer s literary maturity. Essays from …
Fetishism and Its Discontents in Post-1960 American Fiction
Av C. Kocela
Inbunden, 2010
632 kr
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This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century.
Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
American Voices and American Identities
Av M. Hurst
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
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Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, …
Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
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Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights.
Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature
Av E. Mercer
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
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This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in …
Writing Celebrity
Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning
Av T. Galow
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
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Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this culture had on "literary" writing in the decades before World War II. The second two sections of the book demonstrate the …
Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction
Counterhistory
Av M. Gauthier
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
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This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.
Bret Easton Ellis
Underwriting the Contemporary
Av G. Colby
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
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This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting …
New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut
Av D. Simmons
Häftad, 2011
757 kr
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Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation. From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960's novels such as Cat's Cradle (1963) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) up to the recent success of A Man Without A Country (2005), Vonnegut's writing …
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination
Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
Av T. Fahy
Häftad, 2011
632 kr
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This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. During this period, the freak show shifted from a highly popular and profitable form of entertainment to a reviled one. But why? And how does this response reflect larger social changes in the United States at the time? Fahy …
Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies
Av M. Boswell, S. Burn
Inbunden, 2013
1380 kr
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Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a professional study of all of Wallace's creative work. This volume includes both thematic essays and focused …
Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror
Av T. Hawkins
Inbunden, 2012
632 kr
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Argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, American history, and American national purpose. To prove such a contention, the book blends literary, rhetorical, and cultural methods of analysis.
Queer Commodities
Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures
Av G. Davidson
Inbunden, 2012
632 kr
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Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it, Guy Davidson …
Edith Wharton and Genre
Beyond Fiction
Inbunden, 2020
1505 kr
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Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: BeyondFiction offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing ingenres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So muchmore than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton …
American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative
Mailer, Wideman, Eggers
Inbunden, 2012
632 kr
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This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D'Amore analyzes the autobiographical works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of authorship, autobiography, …
Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women’s Poetry
Av N. Marsh
Inbunden, 2007
632 kr
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This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.S culture.
American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery
The House Abandoned
Av M. MacArthur
Inbunden, 2008
632 kr
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Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashbery stand out among major American poets - all three shaped the direction and pushed the boundaries of contemporary poetry on an international scale. Drawing on biography, cultural history, and original archival research, MacArthur shows us that these …
Anti-Hero in the American Novel
From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut
Av D. Simmons
Inbunden, 2008
632 kr
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The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements …
Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism
Av J. Haytock
Inbunden, 2008
632 kr
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This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.
Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature
From Faulkner and Morrison to Walker and Silko
Av L. Smith
Inbunden, 2008
632 kr
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The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries, but also complicating divisions between 'wilderness' and …
Culture of Soft Work
Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative
Av H. Hicks
Inbunden, 2009
632 kr
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The Culture of Soft Work examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts.
Narrating Class in American Fiction
Av W. Dow
Inbunden, 2009
632 kr
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Focusing on American fiction from 1850-1940, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings in the context of literary and political history to detail the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social identities.
Cormac McCarthy
American Canticles
Av K. Lincoln
Inbunden, 2009
632 kr
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This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into.
Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies
Reimagining Home, the South, and Southern Literary Production
Av C. Seltzer
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
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This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity.
Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race
Av S. Kim
Inbunden, 2010
632 kr
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Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the political and economic …
Cormac McCarthy
American Canticles
Av K. Lincoln
Häftad, 2010
632 kr
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This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into.
Emergence of the American Frontier Hero 1682–1826
Gender, Action, and Emotion
Av D. MacNeil
Inbunden, 2010
632 kr
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The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, the film-maker John Ford, and actor …
African American Gothic
Screams from Shadowed Places
Av M. Wester
Inbunden, 2012
1513 kr
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This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the genre to critique the gothic's traditional racial ideologies and the mechanisms that were appropriated and …
Intuitions in Literature, Technology, and Politics
Parabilities
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forché, Merrill, …
Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body
Av S. Anderson
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent trauma, specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memories, while also considering how authors' …
