Jonathan Lethem / James Peacock.
"Examining all of Lethem's novels, as well as a number of his short fictions, essays and critical works, this study shows how the author's prolific output, his restlessness and his desire always to be subverting literary forms and genres, are consistent with his interest in subcultura...
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Peacock, James, 1970- Jonathan Lethem [electronic resource] / James Peacock. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012. ix, 185 p. Contemporary American and Canadian writers Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index. Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music -- The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon -- Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table -- Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape -- 'We learned to tell our story walking': Tourette's and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn -- Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude -- 'Hiding in plain sight': reality and secrecy in You Don't Love Me Yet and Chronic City. "Examining all of Lethem's novels, as well as a number of his short fictions, essays and critical works, this study shows how the author's prolific output, his restlessness and his desire always to be subverting literary forms and genres, are consistent with his interest in subcultural identities. The human need to break off into small groupings, subcultures or miniature utopias is mirrored in the critical tendency to enforce generic boundaries. To break down the boundaries between genres, then, is partly to make a nonsense of critical distinctions between 'high' and 'low' literature, and partly to reflect the wider need to recognise difference, to appreciate that other people, no matter how outlandish and alien they may appear, share similar desires, experiences and problems. With this in mind, James Peacock argues that Lethem's experiments with genre are not merely games or elaborate literary jokes, but ethical necessities, particularly when viewed in the light of the losses and traumas that shadow all of his writing. Jonathan Lethem, therefore, makes an important contribution not just to Lethem studies, but also to debates about genre and its position in postmodern or 'post-postmodern' literature."--Publisher's website. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Lethem, Jonathan Criticism and interpretation. Electronic books. ProQuest (Firm) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=1069716 Click to View |
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Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music -- The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon -- Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table -- Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape -- 'We learned to tell our story walking': Tourette's and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn -- Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude -- 'Hiding in plain sight': reality and secrecy in You Don't Love Me Yet and Chronic City. |
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