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American Novel Now de O Donnell

American Novel Now

Autor O Donnell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 ian 2010
The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels. * Discusses an exceptionally wide-range of authors and novels, from established figures to significant emerging writers * Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker and many more * Explores the range of themes and styles offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction since 1980, in both mainstream and experimental writings * Reflects the liveliness and diversity of American fiction in the last thirty years * Written in a style that makes it ideal for students and scholars, while also accessible for general readers
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405167574
ISBN-10: 1405167572
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Students and scholars of American literature, the American novel, and contemporary American literature, and the general reader interested in contemporary American fiction

Notă biografică

Patrick O'Donnell is Professor of English and American Literature at Michigan State University, where he served as department chair from 1997 to 2007. He has written and edited a number of books and collections on contemporary American fiction and film, including Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (2000), Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative (1992), Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction (1986), and New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 (edited, 1991). He is an associate editor of The Columbia History of the American Novel (1991), a former editor of Modern Fiction Studies, and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction (forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell).

Cuprins

Preface viii
Acknowledgments xii
Part I: Before 1980 1
Part II: From New Realisms to Postmodernism 34
"This American Life" 35
"Dirty Realisms" 46
Only Wor(l)ds 56
Magnifying Reality, Multiplying Genre 67
Part III: Becoming Identities 80
Reinventing Character 82
Racing Identity 92
Engendering Narrative 104
Toward the Posthuman 115
Part IV: What Happened to History? 124
The Past is Prologue 126
Tunneling In 132
Imagining Epoch 136
Another History 146
Narrating Vietnam 150
Catastrophe: The Ends of History 162
Part V: Relations Stopping Nowhere 172
The Postnuclear Family 173
The Reach of Community 187
From There to Here: Migration and Nation 199
Epilogue 213
Notes 216
References 220
Index 228

Descriere

Written in a lively and accessible style, the book explores a wide range of themes offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction, including identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements, styles, and narrative strategies.