Contemporary American Fiction / / David Brauner.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : ECGL
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- 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’
- Chapter 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