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Contemporary American Fiction

Author : David Brauner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629815
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Fiction written by David Brauner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Eugenides, Gish Jen and Richard Powers - the book combines detailed readings of key texts with informative discussions of their historical, social and cultural contexts. There are chapters focusing on formal characteristics (the use of irony and paradox in novels by Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Bret Easton Ellis, and the generic properties of the texts and films of Cold Mountain, 'Brokeback Mountain' and No Country for Old Men) and on thematic concerns (the representation of gender and sexuality in novels by Jane Smiley, Carol Shields and Jeffrey Eugenides and of ethnicity, race and hybridity in fiction by Gish Jen, Philip Roth and Richard Powers). Running through all these chapters is an interrogation of all three elements making up the phrase 'contemporary American fiction'.Key Features* Identifies some of the main trends in contemporary American fiction and situates them in historical and cultural contexts* Discusses a representative range of recent fiction, providing a sense of the rich diversity of the field and of its key themes and modes of writing* Introduces students to a variety of critical approaches to, and debates concerning, contemporary American fiction* Encourages reflection on the nature of national, gender, ethnic and generic identities

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes

Author : Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781119431718
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes written by Patrick O'Donnell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as a vision of what may come. It perfectly balances analysis, summary, and critique for an illuminating treatment of the subject matter. This collection also includes: An exciting mix of established and emerging contributors from around the world discussing central and cutting-edge topics in American fiction studies Focused, critical explorations of authors and subjects of critical importance to American fiction Topics that reflect the energies and tendencies of contemporary American fiction from the forty years between 1980 and 2020 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students of American literature, English, creative writing, and fiction studies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars seeking an authoritative array of contributions on both established and newer authors of contemporary fiction.

Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Kenneth Millard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198711786
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Fiction written by Kenneth Millard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millard leads the interpretation of post-1970 fiction by addressing particular authors and themes.

Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Kenneth Millard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629548
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction written by Kenneth Millard and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Neo-realism in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Kristiaan Versluys
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051833546
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Neo-realism in Contemporary American Fiction written by Kristiaan Versluys and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Douglas Messerli
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Sun & Moon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780940650237
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary American Fiction by : Douglas Messerli

Download or read book Contemporary American Fiction written by Douglas Messerli and published by Washington, D.C. : Sun & Moon Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Contemporary American Novel in Context

Author : Andrew Dix
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441132058
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary American Novel in Context written by Andrew Dix and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism.

The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : S. Halldorson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230609783
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction written by S. Halldorson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero."

Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030941663
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to ‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses.

New Strangers in Paradise: The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Gilbert H. Muller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813129341
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book New Strangers in Paradise: The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction written by Gilbert H. Muller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Judie Newman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136774807
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction written by Judie Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the possibility of terror — whether state or non-state, external or homegrown — shadows Utopian imaginings. Terror and Utopia are linked in fiction through the exploration of the commodification of affect, a phenomenon of a globalized world in which feelings are managed, homogenized across cultures, exaggerated, or expunged according to a dominant model. Narrative approaches to the terrorist offer a means to investigate the ways in which fiction can resist commodification of affect, and maintain a reasoned but imaginative vision of possibilities for human community. Newman explores topics such as the first American bestseller with a Muslim protagonist, the links between writer and terrorist, the work of Iranian-Jewish Americans, and the relation of race and religion to Utopian thought.

Contemporary American Fiction in the Embrace of the Digital Age

Author : Beatrice Pire
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 178284712X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Fiction in the Embrace of the Digital Age written by Beatrice Pire and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection aims to examine the relationship between American fiction and innovations that marked the first decades of the 21st century: the Internet, social media, smart objects and environments, artificial intelligence, nanotechnologies, genetic engineering and other biotechnologies, transhumanism. These technological innovations redefine the way we live in and imagine our world, interact with each other and understand the human being in his or her ever closer relationship to the machine a human being no longer, as in the past, cared for or repaired, but now enhanced or replaced. What about our artistic and cultural practices? Are these recent advances changing language and literature? How is fiction transformed by technological progress and what representations of progress can it oppose? Can fiction offer a critique of the new media and the upheavals they precipitate? How does the temporality of literature respond to a technical time subjected to the imperative of efficiency, where the present is a slave to the future? Do virtual worlds challenge the primacy of literary fiction as a privileged mode of escape from daily life? In a context where software can generate literary works, can the force of poetical advent still oppose algorithmic logics? What becomes of the body in a world in which its technical extensions increase the externalization of its cognitive functions in media artifacts and digital networks? In order to explore these questions, scholars here investigate the American fiction of Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Tao Lin, Richard Powers, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jennifer Egan or Jonathan Franzen as well as the Cyberpunk genre and the Neuronovel.

New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Magali Cornier Michael
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297396
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction written by Magali Cornier Michael and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging, optimistic close reading of five late twentieth-century novels by American women, Magali Cornier Michael illuminates the ways in which their authors engage with ideas of communal activism, common commitment, and social transformation. The fictions she examines imagine coalition building as a means of moving toward new forms of nonhierarchical justice; for ethnic cultures that, as a result of racist attitudes, have not been assimilated, power with each other rather than power over each other is a collective goal.Michael argues that much contemporary American fiction by women offers models of care and nurturing that move away from the private sphere toward the public and political. Specifically, texts by women from such racially marked ethnic groups as African American, Asian American, Native American, and Mexican American draw from the rich systems of thought, histories, and experiences of these hybrid cultures and thus offer feminist and ethical revisions of traditional concepts of community, coalition, subjectivity, and agency.Focusing on Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven, Ana Castillo’s So Far from God, and Toni Morrison’s Paradise, Michael shows that each writer emphasizes the positive, liberating effects of kinship and community. These hybrid versions of community, which draw from other-than-dominant culturally specific ideas and histories, have something to offer Americans as the United States moves into an increasingly diverse twenty-first century. Michael provides a rich lens through which to view both contemporary fiction and contemporary life.

The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Catherine Morley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135899584
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction written by Catherine Morley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.

Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers

Author : Laurie Champion
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031307643X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers written by Laurie Champion and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American women writers have long been creating an extraordinarily diverse and vital body of fiction, particularly in the decades since World War II. Recent authors have benefited from the struggles of their predecessors, who broke through barriers that denied women opportunities for self-expression. This reference highlights American women writers who continue to build upon the formerly male-dominated canon. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for more than 60 American women writers of diverse ethnicity who wrote or published their most significant fiction after World War II. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes:^L^DBLA brief biography^L^DBLA discussion of major works and themes^^DBLA survey of the writer's critical reception^L^DBLA bibliography of primary and secondary sources

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE

Author : GARCÍA LORENZO María Magdalena
Publisher : Editorial UNED
ISBN 13 : 8436269063
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE written by GARCÍA LORENZO María Magdalena and published by Editorial UNED. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern and Contemporary American Literature is a course book especially designed for students of UNED’s “Literatura Norteamericana II: Moderna y Contemporánea” of the “Grado en Estudios Ingleses: Lengua, Literatura y Cultura.” It offers a survey of the main authors, texts and concerns of twentieth-century American literature, and pays particular attention to Modernism and Postmodernism as major cultural moments. This book also comprises analytical strategies for the course’s set readings, as well as self-assessing and discussion exercises for the students to test their own progress.

Contemporary American Literature (1945-present)

Author : Karen Meyers
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604134895
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Literature (1945-present) written by Karen Meyers and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a variety of topics, from the violence of war and the struggle for civil rights to the social impact of technology and the moral significance of money, this colorfully illustrated guide to American literature from the postwar period to the present day has been expanded and fully updated. A new section titled "Into the Future" contains a discussion of the best young writers of recent years. A concise, engaging guide to American contemporary literature, this volume provides information on 21st-century writers; the 1950s, '60s, and beyond; contemporary American poetry; and the postmodern movement. Topics include: Post-World War II and Vietnam War literature New Journalism Beat literature and existentialism The rise of ethnic and minority literature The civil rights movement Postmodernism Confessional poetry and poetry of witness Millennial voices in fiction And more. Writers covered include: Raymond Carver Sandra Cisneros Ralph Ellison Robert Frost Norman Mailer N. Scott Momaday Toni Morrison Sylvia Plath Thomas Pynchon Adrienne Rich J.D. Salinger Kurt Vonnegut Tom Wolfe And many others.