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Contemporary American Fiction
Author | : Nick Hornby |
Publsiher | : Vision Press (NM) |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0312042132 |
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"Contemporary American Fiction concentrates on a group of writers who have achieved prominence in the '80s, and in particular those writers anthologized in Granta's two highly influential collections, Dirty Realism and More Dirt. The book includes a major essay on Raymond Carver, arguably the most important literary figure of the decade; there is also a discussion of the work of Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff, friends of Carver, whose writing shows similar sensibilities." "The last decade has seen a revival of interest in the short story; special attention is paid here to the emerging group of women writers--Bobbie Ann Mason, Joy Williams, Jayne Anne Phillips and Elizabeth Tallent, among others--whose stories continue the tradition of Eudora Welty, Willa Cather and Flannery O'Connor." "This study is a wide-ranging and readable introduction to the American 'New Wave' of writers, and contains interviews with some of the key figures. It will be of interest to anyone who has read and enjoyed the most vibrant writing to have come out of the U.S. for years."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction
Author | : Kenneth Millard |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2007-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780748629541 |
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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel, or the Bildungsroman. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood, often presented through depictions of immediate family relationships and other social structures. This book considers a variety of different American cultures (in terms of race, class and gender) and a range of contemporary coming-of-age novels, so that aesthetic judgements about the fiction might be made in the context of the social history that fiction represents. A series of questions are asked:* Does the coming-of-age moment in these novels coincide with an interpretation of the 'fall' of America?* What kind of national commentary does it therefore facilitate?* Is the Bildungsroman a quintessentially American genre?* What can it usefully tell us about contemporary American culture? Although the focus is on the conte
Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction
Author | : Aliki Varvogli |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136627033 |
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This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Varvogli draws on current theories of travel globalization and post-national studies, and proposes a dynamic model that will enable scholars to approach contemporary American fiction and assess recent changes and continuities. Concentrating on work by Philip Caputo, Dave Eggers, Norman Rush and Russell Banks, the book proposes that American literature’s engagement with Africa has shifted and needs to be approached using new methodologies. Novels by Amy Tan, Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Safran Foer and Dave Eggers are examined in the context of travel and globalization, and works by Chang-rae Lee, Ethan Canin, Dinaw Mengestu and Jhumpa Lahiri are used as examples of the changing face of the American immigrant novel, and the changing meaning of national belonging.
Contemporary American Fiction
Author | : David Brauner |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh Critical Guides to L |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0748622675 |
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This study of contemporary American fiction discusses work by critically-acclaimed authors such as Philip Roth, Annie Proulx and Paul Auster and situates them in a range of literary-historical contexts. It identifies trends in recent American fiction and analyzes the main developments in critical thinking of the last 20 years.
Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism
Author | : Bryan M. Santin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2021-03-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108832656 |
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Shows how shifting views on race caused the American conservative movement to surrender highbrow fiction to to progressive liberals.
The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction
Author | : Stacey Olster |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2017-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108394093 |
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The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the end of the Cold War and globalization, 9/11, borderlands and border identities, race, and the legacy of postmodern aesthetics - this Introduction locates contemporary American fiction at the intersection of a specific time and long-standing traditions. In the process, it investigates the entire concept of what constitutes an “American” author while exploring the vexed, yet resilient, nature of what the concept of home has come to signify in so much writing today. This wide-ranging study will be invaluable to students, instructors, and general readers alike.
Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction
Author | : Thomas D. Clareson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015018312382 |
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Discusses writers such as Poul Anderson, Brian W. Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Algis Budrys, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John W. Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Thomas Disch, Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Randall Garrett, Robert A. Heinlein, Zenna Henderson, Frank Herbert, Damon Knight, Cyril Kornbluth, Ursula K. Le Guin, Murray Leinster, Anne McCaffrey, Judith Merril, A. Merritt, Walter M. Miller Jr., Michael Moorcock, Andre Norton, Alexei Panshin, H. Beam Piper, Frederik Pohl, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, Cordwainer Smith, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Norman Spinrad, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Vance, A.E. van Vogt, Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Wollheim, RogerZelazny, Jack Williamson, and others.
Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction
Author | : Lorna Piatti-Farnell |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-07-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136645532 |
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Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Food Studies and American literary scholarship, Piatti-Farnell investigates the significances of food and eating in American fiction, from 1980 to the present day. She argues that culturally-coded representations of the culinary illuminate contemporary American anxieties about class gender, race, tradition, immigration, nationhood, and history. As she offers a critical analysis of major works of contemporary fiction, Piatti-Farnell unveils contrasting modes of culinary nostalgia, disillusionment, and progress that pervasively address the cultural disintegration of local and familiar culinary values, in favor of globalized economies of consumption. In identifying different incarnations of the "American culinary," Piatti-Farnell covers the depiction of food in specific categories of American fiction and explores how the cultural separation that molds food preferences inevitably challenges the existence of a homogenous American identity. The study treads on new grounds since it not only provides the first comprehensive study of food and consumption in contemporary American fiction, but also aims to expose interrelated politics of consumption in a variety of authors from different ethnic, cultural, racial and social backgrounds within the United States.