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Douglas Coupland
Av Andrew Tate
Häftad, 2007
389 kr
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This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century’s most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland’s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a …
Paul Auster
Av Mark Brown
Häftad, 2007
389 kr
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Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster’s essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By tracing how Auster's representations of New York …
Philip Roth
Inbunden, 2007
1291 kr
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This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author alongside a number of his contemporaries, and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an …
Philip Roth
Häftad, 2007
418 kr
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This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author alongside a number of his contemporaries, and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an …
Louise Erdrich
Häftad, 2012
394 kr
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Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is the first fully comprehensive treatment of Erdrich’s writing, analysing the textual complexities and diverse contexts of her work to date. Drawing on the critical archive relating to …
Douglas Coupland
Av Andrew Tate
Inbunden, 2007
1291 kr
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This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century’s most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland’s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a …
Thomas Pynchon
Av Simon Malpas, Andrew Taylor
Inbunden, 2013
1411 kr
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This is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America’s engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of …
Passing into the Present
Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing
Inbunden, 2010
1302 kr
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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of …
Jonathan Lethem
Inbunden, 2012
1264 kr
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Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high profile in American literature. Examining all of Lethem’s novels, as well as a number of his short fictions, essays and critical works, this study shows …
Making Home
Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels
Av Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1411 kr
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Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia …
Mark Z. Danielewski
Häftad, 2015
418 kr
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Now available in paperback, this is the first book-length study of Mark Z. Danielewski, an American novelist who is rapidly establishing himself as a leading figure in the landscape of contemporary literature. It places his three major works to date, House of Leaves, The Fifty Year Sword and Only …
Thomas Pynchon
Av Simon Malpas, Andrew Taylor
Häftad, 2015
414 kr
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Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America’s engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that …
Quiet Contemporary American Novel
Av Rachel Sykes
Inbunden, 2017
1411 kr
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This book explores the concept of ‘quiet’ – an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles – and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In doing so, it makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions, …
Marilynne Robinson
Av Rachel Sykes, Anna Maguire Elliott m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1484 kr
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Best known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public speaker, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama. This collection intervenes in Robinson’s …
Cormac Mccarthy
A Complexity Theory of Literature
Inbunden, 2021
904 kr
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Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy’s literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our …
Passing into the Present
Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of …
Sara Paretsky
Detective Fiction as Trauma Literature
Häftad, 2021
266 kr
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Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than this. Her novels also illustrate the extent to which detective fiction acts as a literature of trauma, …
Making Home
Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels
Av Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia …
Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction
Inbunden, 2021
1367 kr
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How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing …
Quiet Contemporary American Novel
Av Rachel Sykes
Häftad, 2022
427 kr
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This book explores the concept of ‘quiet’ – an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles – and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In doing so, it makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions, …
Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship
Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing
Häftad, 2022
427 kr
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Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework to theorise how the act of reading can contribute to the queering of contemporary citizenship in North America. Providing sensitive and convincing readings of work …
politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
Häftad, 2023
219 kr
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How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing …
Cormac McCarthy
A complexity theory of literature
Häftad, 2023
427 kr
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Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy’s literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our …
Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship
Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing
Inbunden, 2019
1370 kr
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Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework to theorise how the act of reading can contribute to the queering of contemporary citizenship in North America. Providing sensitive and convincing readings of work …
Sara Paretsky
Detective Fiction as Trauma Literature
Inbunden, 2015
1291 kr
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Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than this. Her novels also illustrate the extent to which detective fiction acts as a literature of trauma, …
