Contemporary American fiction /
This is an accessible, lucid and incisive study that will prove indispensable to students and scholars of contemporary American fiction. Featuring a wide range of authors - from canonical figures such as Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Annie Proulx, to increasingly influential writers such as Jeffrey E...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
©2010.
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| Loạt: | Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09zgc |
Mục lục:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 �The space reserved for irony�: Irony and Paradox in Don DeLillo�s White Noise, Paul Auster�s City of Glass and Bret Easton Ellis�s American Psycho
- Chapter 2 Silence, Secrecy and Sexuality: �Alternate Histories� in Jane Smiley�s A Thousand Acres, Carol Shields� The Stone Diaries and Jeffrey Eugenides� Middlesex
- Chapter 3 �Nes and Yo�: Race, Ethnicity and Hybridity in Gish Jen�s Mona in the Promised Land, Philip Roth�s The Human Stain and Richard Powers� The Time of Our SingingChapter 4 Contemporary American Fiction Goes to Hollywood: Genre in the Texts and Films of Cold Mountain, Brokeback Mountain and No Country for Old Men
- Conclusion
- Student Resources
- Index