The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillennial U.S.-American Writing /

The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillennial U.S.-American Writing / / ed. by Jolene Mathieson, Marius Henderson, Julia Lange.

In the last twenty years, how has U.S.-American writing and the reading public responded to the complexity of an American culture resolutely situated in a larger, highly politicized, globalized world undergoing radical change? The 20th-century modes of realism and postmodernism have been succeeded b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bieger, Laura,
Buschendorf, Christa,
Böger, Astrid,
Claviez, Thomas,
Franke, Astrid,
Gersdorf, Catrin,
Gross, Andrew S.,
Henderson, Marius,
Hopen, Kai,
Ickstadt, Heinz,
Kucharzewski, Jan D,
Lange, Julia,
Mathieson, Jolene,
Reichardt, Ulfried,
Schöpp, Joseph C.,
Sielke, Sabine,
Zapf, Hubert,
HerausgeberIn:
Henderson, Marius,
Lange, Julia,
Mathieson, Jolene,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 79
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 285 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillennial U.S.-American Writing
  • Section One: Novel Transitions in the Millennium
  • The Late Style of Three Postmodernist Masters: Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Robert Coover
  • Siri Hustvedt and the Transdisciplinary Knowledge of Literature
  • Shostakovich, Totalitarianism, and Anglo-American Fiction: Powers, Barnes, and Vollmann
  • History is Suffering: Reading Teju Cole’s Open City in Light of Walter Benjamin and W. G. Sebald
  • Greek Passion Revisited: Appropriations of Medea in African American Fiction
  • Section Two: Realisms and Representing the Anthropocene
  • The Newly Conventional U.S.-American Novel and the (Neo‐)Liberal Imagination: on Franzen, Eggers, and the Like
  • Neorealism, Metonymy, and the Question of Contingency
  • For the Birds: Nell Zink’s and Jonathan Franzen’s Environmentalist Fiction
  • “…the Wood for the Trees”: Scale, Sentience, and Sentiment in Richard Powers’ The Overstory
  • Forests, Sustainability, and the Ecological Cynicism of the Anthropocene: Reading Annie Proulx’s Barkskins
  • Section Three: Identity and the Poetics of Transgression
  • Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric: Fighting Microaggression, Loneliness, and Disconnection
  • Ellen Hinsey: Poet of the Public Sphere
  • “In Part, Absolutely”: Language, Form, and Potential in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School
  • The 1619 Project as Aesthetic and Social Practice; or, the Art of the Essay in the Digital Age
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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