American Fiction In Transition

Author : Rachel Greenwald Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108547550

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American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010 by Rachel Greenwald Smith Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010 illuminates the dynamic transformations that occurred in American literary culture during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The volume is the first major critical collection to address the literature of the 2000s, a decade that saw dramatic changes in digital technology, economics, world affairs, and environmental awareness. Beginning with an introduction that takes stock of the period's major historical, cultural, and literary movements, the volume features accessible essays on a wide range of topics, including genre fiction, the treatment of social networking in literature, climate change fiction, the ascendency of Amazon and online booksellers, 9/11 literature, finance and literature, and the rise of prestige television. Mapping the literary culture of a decade of promise and threat, American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010 provides an invaluable resource on twenty-first century American literature for general readers, students, and scholars alike.

Author : Stephen J. Burn,Mark W. Van Wienen,Ichiro Takayoshi,Christopher Vials,Steven Belletto,David Wyatt,Kirk Curnutt,D. Quentin Miller,Rachel Greenwald Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American literature
ISBN : 131650171X

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American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000 by Stephen J. Burn,Mark W. Van Wienen,Ichiro Takayoshi,Christopher Vials,Steven Belletto,David Wyatt,Kirk Curnutt,D. Quentin Miller,Rachel Greenwald Smith Pdf

Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating inherited forms, by adopting and adapting emerging technologies to narrative ends, and by finding new voices that had remained outside that canon for too long. By reading 1990s literature in a sequence of shifting contexts - from independent presses to the AIDS crisis, and from angelology to virtual reality - American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000 provides the fullest map yet of the changing shape of a rich and diverse decade's literary production. It offers new perspectives on the period's well-known landmarks, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, but also overdue recognition to writers such as Ana Castillo, Evan Dara, Steve Erickson, and Carole Maso.

Author : Adam Kelly
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441173744

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American Fiction in Transition by Adam Kelly Pdf

American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero's life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture.

Author : Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108304801

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American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 by Ichiro Takayoshi Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with a focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws.

Author : Betsy Huang,Victor Román Mendoza
Publisher : Asian American Literature in T
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830843

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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996-2020: Volume 4 by Betsy Huang,Victor Román Mendoza Pdf

This volume examines the concerns - political, literary, and identity-based - of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.

Author : Adam Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1472543394

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American Fiction in Transition by Adam Kelly Pdf

"American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E.L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero's life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1108632009

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African American Literature in Transition, 1800-1830 by Jasmine Nichole Cobb Pdf

"African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political circulation of ideas. Transformations included increased numbers of Black organizations, shifts in the physical mobility of Black peoples, expanded circulation of abolitionist and Black newsprint as well as greater production of Black authored texts and images. The perpetuation of slavery in the early American republic meant that many people of African descent conveyed experiences of bondage or promoted abolition in complex ways, relying on a diverse array of print and illustrative forms. Accordingly, this volume takes a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830, exploring Black organizational life before 1830, movement and mobility in African American literature, and print culture in circulation, illustration, and the narrative form"--

Author : Victor Bascara,Josephine Nock-Hee Park
Publisher : Asian American Literature in T
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108835602

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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965: Volume 2 by Victor Bascara,Josephine Nock-Hee Park Pdf

Leading scholars provide illuminating and engaging perspectives on a long neglected, yet incredibly eventful, period (1930-1965) of Asian American literature.

Author : David Wyatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316732847

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American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970 by David Wyatt Pdf

The decade of the 1960s has come to occupy a uniquely seductive place in both the popular and the historical imagination. While few might disagree that it was a transformative period, the United States remains divided on the question of whether the changes that occurred were for the better or for the worse. Some see it as a decade when people became more free; others as a time when people became more lost. American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970 provides the latest scholarship on this time of fateful turning as seen through the eyes of writers as various as Toni Morrison, Gary Snyder, Michael Herr, Amiri Baraka, Joan Didion, Louis Chu, John Rechy, and Gwendolyn Brooks. This collection of essays by twenty-five scholars offers analysis and explication of the culture wars surrounding the period, and explores the enduring testimonies left behind by its literature.

Author : Daniel Quentin Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1108401694

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American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990 by Daniel Quentin Miller Pdf

Author : Christopher Vials
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108548601

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American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950 by Christopher Vials Pdf

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as the dominant imperial power, and in US popular memory, the Second World War is remembered more vividly than the American Revolution. American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950 provides crucial contexts for interpreting the literature of this period. Essays from scholars in literature, history, art history, ethnic studies, and American studies show how writers intervened in the global struggles of the decade: the Second World War, the Cold War, and emerging movements over racial justice, gender and sexuality, labor, and de-colonization. One recurrent motif is the centrality of the political impulse in art and culture. Artists and writers participated widely in left and liberal social movements that fundamentally transformed the terms of social life in the twentieth century, not by advocating specific legislation, but by changing underlying cultural values. This book addresses all the political impulses fueling art and literature at the time, as well as the development of new forms and media, from modernism and noir to radio and the paperback.

Author : Charlie Keil
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299173630

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Early American Cinema in Transition by Charlie Keil Pdf

The period 1907–1913 marks a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an increasingly popular entertainment, fledgling studios responded with longer running times and more complex storytelling. A growing trade press and changing production procedures also influenced filmmaking. In Early American Cinema in Transition, Charlie Keil looks at a broad cross-section of fiction films to examine the formal changes in cinema of this period and the ways that filmmakers developed narrative techniques to suit the fifteen-minute, one-reel format. Keil outlines the kinds of narratives that proved most suitable for a single reel’s duration, the particular demands that time and space exerted on this early form of film narration, and the ways filmmakers employed the unique features of a primarily visual medium to craft stories that would appeal to an audience numbering in the millions. He underscores his analysis with a detailed look at six films: The Boy Detective; The Forgotten Watch; Rose O’Salem-Town; Cupid’s Monkey Wrench; Belle Boyd, A Confederate Spy; and Suspense.

Author : Mark W. Van Wienen,Ichiro Takayoshi,Christopher Vials,Steven Belletto,David Wyatt,Kirk Curnutt,D. Quentin Miller,Stephen J. Burn,Rachel Greenwald Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1050057582

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American Literature in Transition by Mark W. Van Wienen,Ichiro Takayoshi,Christopher Vials,Steven Belletto,David Wyatt,Kirk Curnutt,D. Quentin Miller,Stephen J. Burn,Rachel Greenwald Smith Pdf

Author : Jonathan Levin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082232296X

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The Poetics of Transition by Jonathan Levin Pdf

Considers the work of American pragmatists and of three major literary modernists, and reveals how their work foregrounds William James's concept of transitional consciousness.

Author : Asha Nadkarni,Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Publisher : Asian American Literature in T
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108843850

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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3 by Asha Nadkarni,Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Pdf

This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965-1996. It is intended for an academic audience, ranging from advanced undergraduate students to scholars from a variety of disciplines, interested in the formation of Asian American literary studies from 1965-1996.