American Fiction Of The 1990s

Author : Samuel Cohen
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587298905

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After the End of History by Samuel Cohen Pdf

In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Roth's American Pastoral, Morrison's Paradise, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted, Eugenides's Middlesex, Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, and DeLillo's Underworld. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is ironically keen on denying that connection. Exploring the ways ideas about paradise and pastoral, difference and exclusion, innocence and righteousness, triumph and trauma deform the stories Americans tell themselves about their nation’s past, After the End of History challenges us to reconsider these works in a new light, offering fresh, insightful readings of what are destined to be classic works of literature. At the same time, Cohen enters into the theoretical discussion about postmodern historical understanding. Throwing his hat in the ring with force and style, he confronts not only Francis Fukuyama’s triumphalist response to the fall of the Soviet Union but also the other literary and political “end of history” claims put forth by such theorists as Fredric Jameson and Walter Benn Michaels. In a straightforward, affecting style, After the End of History offers us a new vision for the capabilities and confines of contemporary fiction.

Author : Jay Prosser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134077458

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American Fiction of the 1990s by Jay Prosser Pdf

American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture brings together essays from international experts to examine one of the most vital and energized decades in American literature. This volume reads the rich body of 1990s American fiction in the context of key cultural concerns of the period. The issues that the contributors identify as especially productive include: Immigration and America’s geographical borders, particularly those with Latin America Racial tensions, race relations and racial exchanges Historical memory and the recording of history Sex, scandal and the politicization of sexuality Postmodern technologies, terrorism and paranoia American Fiction of the 1990s examines texts by established authors such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon, who write some of their most ambitious work in the period, but also by emergent writers, such as Sherman Alexie, Chang-Rae Lee, E. Annie Proulx, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Franzen. Offering new insight into both the literature and the culture of the period, as well as the interaction between the two in a way that furthers the New American Studies, this volume will be essential reading for students and lecturers of American literature and culture and late twentieth-century fiction. Contributors include: Timothy Aubry, Alex Blazer, Kasia Boddy, Stephen J. Burn, Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, Suzanne W. Jones, Peter Knight, A. Robert Lee, Stacey Olster, Derek Parker Royal, Krishna Sen, Zoe Trodd, Andrew Warnes and Nahem Yousaf.

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 : 48,5 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 : Jacqueline Foertsch
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748630349

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American Culture in the 1940s by Jacqueline Foertsch Pdf

This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America - fiction and non-fiction; music and radio; film and theatre; serious and popular visual arts - and key texts, trends and figures, from Native Son to Citizen Kane, from Hiroshima to HUAC, and from Dr Seuss to Bob Hope. After discussing the dominant ideas that inform the 1940s the book culminates with a chapter on the 'culture of war'. Rather than splitting the decade at 1945, Jacqueline Foertsch argues persuasively that the 1940s should be taken as a whole, seeking out links between wartime and postwar American culture.

Author : Keith Dallas,Jason Sacks
Publisher : Two Morrows Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1605490849

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American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1990s by Keith Dallas,Jason Sacks Pdf

The 1990s was the decade when Marvel Comics sold 8.1 million copies of an issue of the X-Men, saw its superstar creators form their own company, cloned Spider-Man, and went bankrupt. It was when Superman died, Batman had his back broken, and the runaway success of Neil Gaiman's Sandman led to DC Comics' Vertigo line of adult comic books. It was the decade of gimmicky covers, skimpy costumes, and mega-crossovers. But most of all, the 1990s was the decade when companies like Image, Valiant and Malibu published million-selling comic books before the industry experienced a shocking and rapid collapse! These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover.

Author : Daniel Quentin Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1108401694

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

Author : Adam Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Lesley Speed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317189282

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Clueless by Lesley Speed Pdf

Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s is a timely contribution to the increasingly prominent academic field of youth film studies. The book draws on the social context to the film’s release, a range of film industry perspectives including marketing, audience reception and franchising, as well as postmodern theory and feminist film theory to assert the cultural and historical significance of Amy Heckerling’s film and reaffirm its reputation as one of the defining teen films of the 1990s. Lesley Speed examines how the film channels aspects of Anita Loos’ 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1960s television series Gidget and Jane Austen’s Emma, to present a heightened, optimistic view of contemporary American teenage life. Although seemingly apolitical, Speed makes the case for Clueless as a feminist exploration of relationships between gender, comedy and consumer culture, centring on a contemporary version of the ‘dumb blonde’ type. The film is also proved to embrace diversity in its depiction of African American characters and contributing to an increase in gay teenagers on screen. Lesley Speed concludes her analysis by tracking the rise of the Clueless franchise and cult following. Both helped to cement the film in popular consciousness, inviting fans to inhabit its fantasy world through spinoff narratives on television and in print, public viewing rituals, revivalism and vintage fashion.

Author : Vernor Vinge
Publisher : Tor Science Fiction
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429981989

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A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge Pdf

Now with a new introduction for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge's award-winning works. A Hugo Award-winning Novel! “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.”-David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. Tor books by Vernor Vinge Zones of Thought Series A Fire Upon The Deep A Deepness In The Sky The Children of The Sky Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm's World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.),Patricia Redmond
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989-10-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0226035379

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Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s by Houston A. Baker (Jr.),Patricia Redmond Pdf

Featuring the work of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this volume assesses the state of Afro-American literary study and projects a vision of that study for the 1990s. "A rich and rewarding collection."—Choice. "This diverse and inspired collection . . . testifies to the Afro-Am academy's extraordinary vitality."—Voice Literary Supplement

Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813543666

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American Cinema of the 1990s by Chris Holmlund Pdf

Films discussed include Terminator 2, The matrix, Home alone, Jurassic Park, Pulp fiction, Boys don't cry, Toy story and Clueless.

Author : Jeffrey A. Frankel,Peter R. Orszag
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262561514

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American Economic Policy in the 1990s by Jeffrey A. Frankel,Peter R. Orszag Pdf

An examination of U.S. economic policy in the 1990s, by leading policy makers as well as academic economists.

Author : Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822576037

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America in the 1990s by Marlene Targ Brill Pdf

Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1990 to 1999.

Author : Agnes Regan Perkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781567507904

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Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1990-1994 by Agnes Regan Perkins Pdf

Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986). Its 567 entries cover 189 award-winning children's books by 136 authors published from 1990 to 1994. Included are concise critical reviews of novels, biographical profiles of authors, and descriptions of memorable characters. An appendix lists books by the awards they have won, and an extensive index allows complete access to the wealth of material contained within this reference work. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for those works that critics have singled out to receive awards or have placed on citation lists during the five years covered by the volume. The reference also contains biographical entries for leading authors of children's fiction, with entries focusing on how the author's life relates to children's literature and to particular works in this dictionary. The volume provides a list of awards, along with an appendix classifying individual works by the awards they have won. An extensive index provides full access to the wealth of information in this book.

Author : Philip Davies,Fredric A. Waldstein
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : United States
ISBN : 0719034205

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Political Issues in America by Philip Davies,Fredric A. Waldstein Pdf

This is a collection of papers dealing with the role of liberalism in the United States during the 1980s and what it means for the 1990s in American politics. Other, related, political areas covered are social and economic policy (health, women's issues, urban issues), foreign policy (the Middle East, the end of the Cold War, dominance, East Asia and foreign investment), issues of representation (the electorate, the decay of American democracy, the media and the message) and issues in government institutions (American federalism, the courts, ethics and the presidency).