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The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction

Author : Gordon Slethaug
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809318415

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The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction by Gordon Slethaug Pdf

In The Hawkline Monster, Brautigan's minimalist metafictive parody of the double depicts our narcissistic view of reality. In Double or Nothing, Federman subverts the conventional double, exposing its gamelike structures and traditional views of life and text.

Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Author : Emily M. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009079624

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Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction by Emily M. Baker Pdf

Addressing the question of why many Latin American fiction authors are writing about Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust now, this book charts the evolution of Latin American literary production from the 19th Century, through the late 20th century 'Boom', to the present day. Containing texts from Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, it analyses work by some of the most well-known contemporary writers including Roberto Bolaño, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Jorge Volpi, Lucía Puenzo, Patricio Pron and Michel Laub; as well as notable precursors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes and Ricardo Piglia. Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction argues that these authors find Nazism relevant to thinking through some of the most urgent contemporary challenges we face: from racism, to the unequal division of wealth and labour between the Global 'North' and 'South'; and, of course, the general failure of democracy to eliminate fascism.

The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture

Author : Karen Dillon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476633862

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The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture by Karen Dillon Pdf

The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently offer the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness—standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison. Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon, this first comprehensive study of twins in American literature and popular culture examines the historical narrative—within the discourses of experimentation, aberrance and eugenics—and how it has shaped their representations in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Roth and Celebrity

Author : Aimee Lynn Pozorski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739170618

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Roth and Celebrity by Aimee Lynn Pozorski Pdf

Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. With its simultaneous interest in American popular culture and the work of the most important living American writer to-date, the collection will hold wide appeal to advanced readers in American studies, literary scholarship, and film.

Beautiful Chaos

Author : Gordon E. Slethaug
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791491737

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Beautiful Chaos by Gordon E. Slethaug Pdf

Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also—and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction—through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory. Since the publication of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987, chaos theory has been taken up by a wide variety of literary critics and other scholars of the arts. While considering the relationship between chaos theory and recent American fiction, Beautiful Chaos details basic assumptions about orderly and dynamic systems and the various manifestations of chaos theory in literature, including mimesis, metaphor, model, and metachaotics. It also explains particular features of orderly and dynamic systems, including entropy, bifurcation and turbulence, noise and information, scaling and fractals, iteration, and strange attractors.

All Stories Are True

Author : Tracie Church Guzzio
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1617030058

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All Stories Are True by Tracie Church Guzzio Pdf

In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman’s entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes-history, myth, and trauma-throughout his career, showing how they intertwine. Guzzio argues that, for four decades, the influential African American writer has endeavored to create a version of the African American experience that runs counter to mainstream interpretations, using history and myth to confront and then heal the trauma caused by slavery and racism. Wideman's work intentionally blurs boundaries between fiction and autobiography, myth and history, particularly as that history relates to African American experience in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fusion of fiction, national history, and Wideman's personal life is characteristic of his style, which-due to its complexity and smudging of genre distinctions-has presented analytic difficulties for literary scholars. Despite winning the PEN/Faulkner award twice, for Sent for You Yesterday (1984) and Philadelphia Fire (1990), Wideman remains under-studied. Of particular value is Guzzio's analysis of the many ways in which Wideman alludes to his previous works. This intertextuality allows Wideman to engage his books in direct, intentional dialogue with each other through repeated characters, images, folktales, and songs. In Wideman's challenging of a monolithic view of history and presenting alternative perspectives to it, and his allowing past, present, and future time to remain fluid in the narratives, Guzzio finds an author firm in his notion that all stories and all perspectives have merit.

Encyclopedia of American Literature

Author : Manly, Inc.
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 4512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438140773

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Encyclopedia of American Literature by Manly, Inc. Pdf

Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.

Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth

Author : Brett Ashley Kaplan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628925043

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Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth by Brett Ashley Kaplan Pdf

Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts explore the Israel-Palestine question and the Holocaust with varying degrees of intensity but all his novels scrutinize perpetration and victimization through examining racism and sexism in America. Brett Ashley Kaplan uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problems of victimization and perpetration; masculinity, femininity, and gender; racism and anti-Semitism. For if, as Kaplan argues, Jewish anxiety is not only about the fear of oppression, and we can begin to see how these anxieties function in terms of fears of perpetration, then perhaps we can begin to unpack the complicated dynamics around the line between the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine.

Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction

Author : Simon Barton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137467362

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Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction by Simon Barton Pdf

This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction.

Hollywood on Stage

Author : Kimball King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136525605

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Hollywood on Stage by Kimball King Pdf

Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the period from the 1920s to the present but concentrates on such contempory playwrights as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Arthur Kopit, and Adrienne Kennedy. A substantial proportion of the volume is devoted to a discussion of the way in which these authors deconstruct Hollywood myths to reveal painful social and psychological issues in American life, providing a deeper and darker picture than the simple satires of movie-making in the 1920s and 1930s or Odets's comparison of the commercially debased Hollywood with the higher, purer art of the theatre. To complete and further complicate the picture, the volume concludes with essays on the African American experience, gay writers, and feminist writing as seen through the lens of Marlane Myer's ETTA JENKS. It is obvious that the legitimate stage remains a watchdog and constant critic of what is possibly the world's most powerful cultural phenomenon This book will be eargerly read by all students of film, theatre, and 20th century literature.

Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature

Author : E. Mercer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119093

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Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature by E. Mercer Pdf

This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language.

Chronotopes of the Uncanny

Author : Petra Eckhard
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783839418413

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Chronotopes of the Uncanny by Petra Eckhard Pdf

Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated the psychoanalytical concept of »the uncanny« into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny - Paul Auster's »City of Glass« and Toni Morrison's »Jazz« - show that the uncanny has developed into a crucial trope to delineate personal and collective fears that are often grounded on the postmodern disruption of spatio-temporal continuities and coherences.

Bodies and Texts

Author : Claire Taylor
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781904350125

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Bodies and Texts by Claire Taylor Pdf

Considers the novels of three Latin American writers, the Argentinian Griselda Gambaro, the Colombian Albalucia ngel, and the Mexican Laura Esquivel, and examines their work in relation to the formation of feminine identity.

Postmodernism: A Bibliography, 1926-1994

Author : Deborah L. Madsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004647282

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Postmodernism: A Bibliography, 1926-1994 by Deborah L. Madsen Pdf

This is the first bibliography of Postmodernism to take account of work published in all subject areas and in all languages. Deborah Madsen has identified a new first occurrence of the term in 1926, preceding by more than twenty years the first occurence documented by the Oxford English Dictionary. In a chronological listing, books, articles, notes, letters and working papers on Postmodernism are described with full bibliographical details. Reviews of major books are documented and full contents listings are given for special issues of journals devoted to Postmodernism. An appendix includes books on Postmodernism announced for publication in 1995. This bibliography brings together in one place all secondary material published on Postmodernism. All disciplines are included, from anthropology to zoology: architecture, cultural studies, dance, drama, feminism, fiction, geography, history, legal studies, literary theory, mathematics, medicine, music, pedagogical theory, philosophy, photography and film, poetry, politics, religion, sociology, the visual and plastic arts, and others. The bibliography also documents items in a range of languages other than English: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovanian, Spanish, and the Scandinavian languages. Access to the information contained in the bibliography is made easy with a comprehensive index providing guidance according to author, subject, language, and key words. Postmodernism: A Bibliography, 1926-1994 is an essential reference text for anyone working in the area of contemporary culture studies.

Outside, America

Author : Hikaru Fujii
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441133007

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Outside, America by Hikaru Fujii Pdf

The idea of the "outside" as a space of freedom has always been central in the literature of the United States. This concept still remains active in contemporary American fiction; however, its function is being significantly changed. Outside, America argues that, among contemporary American novelists, a shift of focus to the temporal dimension is taking place. No longer a spatial movement, the quest for the outside now seeks to reach the idea of time as a force of difference, a la Deleuze, by which the current subjectivity is transformed. In other words, the concept is taking a "temporal turn." Discussing eight novelists, including Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Paul Theroux, and Annie Proulx, each of whose works describe forces of given identities-masculine identity, historical temporality, and power, etc.-which block quests for the outside, Fujii shows how the outside in these texts ceases to be a spatial idea. With due attention to critical and social contexts, the book aims to reveal a profound shift in contemporary American fiction.