Underwords

Author : Joseph Dewey,Steven G. Kellman,Irving Malin
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874137853

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UnderWords by Joseph Dewey,Steven G. Kellman,Irving Malin Pdf

Don DeLillo's 1997 masterwork Underworld, one of the most acclaimed and long-awaited novels of the last twenty years, was immediately recognized as a landmark novel, not only in the long career of one of America's most distinguished novelists but also in the ongoing evolution of the postmodern novel. Vast in scope, intricately organized, and densely allusive, the text provided an immediate and engaging challenge to readers of contemporary fiction. This collection of thirteen essays brings together new and established voices in American studies and contemporary American literature to assess the place of this remarkable novel not only within the postmodern tradition but within the larger patterns of American literature and culture as well. By seeking to place the novel within such a context, this lively collection of provocative readings offers a valuable guide for both students and scholars of the American literary imagination.

Author : Kate McDonald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520293915

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Placing Empire by Kate McDonald Pdf

Seeing like the nation -- The new territories -- Boundary narratives -- Local color -- Speaking Japanese

Author : Samuel Coale
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813932859

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Quirks of the Quantum by Samuel Coale Pdf

Episodic and disconnected, much of postmodern fiction mirrors the world as quantum theorists describe it, according to Samuel Chase Coale. In Quirks of the Quantum, Coale shows how the doubts, misgivings, and ambiguities reflected in the postmodern American novel have been influenced by the metaphors and models of quantum theory. Coale explains the basic facets of quantum theory in lay terms and then applies them to a selection of texts, including Don DeLillo's Underworld, Joan Didion's Democracy, and Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. Using a new approach to literature and culture, this book aims to bridge the gap between science and the humanities by suggesting the many areas where they connect.

Author : Walter William Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English language
ISBN : PSU:000004532194

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Principles of English Etymology: The native element by Walter William Skeat Pdf

Author : Walter William Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English language
ISBN : CUB:P101132910002

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Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Printing
ISBN : UIUC:30112068340972

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Printer 3 & 2 by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Journalism
ISBN : UCAL:$B134904

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Journalist 3 & 2 by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Printing
ISBN : UCAL:$B128346

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Printer 3c & 2c by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel Pdf

Author : Nancy Polette
Publisher : Pieces of Learning
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781880505854

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Expanded First Research Projects by Nancy Polette Pdf

Author : Maggie Hamand
Publisher : Arcadia Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015063276797

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Underwords by Maggie Hamand Pdf

"London has always been a chameleon figure, revealing itself in a multitude of different guises, each as individual as the dreams and aspirations of its many inhabitants. The theme of this collection is the hidden city, and each of the fourteen stories vividly expresses a different mood and aspect of the city, and the undercurrents of emotion that surge through the capital - the irrepressible mixture of excitement or tension, fear or freedom."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Patrick Jagoda
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226346656

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Network Aesthetics by Patrick Jagoda Pdf

The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network’s role as a way for people to construct and manage their world—and their view of themselves. Each chapter considers how popular media and artistic forms make sense of decentralized network metaphors and infrastructures. Patrick Jagoda first examines narratives from the 1990s and 2000s, including the novel Underworld, the film Syriana, and the television series The Wire, all of which play with network forms to promote reflection on domestic crisis and imperial decline in contemporary America. Jagoda then looks at digital media that are interactive, nonlinear, and dependent on connected audiences to show how recent approaches, such as those in the videogame Journey, open up space for participatory and improvisational thought. Contributing to fields as diverse as literary criticism, digital studies, media theory, and American studies, Network Aesthetics brilliantly demonstrates that, in today’s world, networks are something that can not only be known, but also felt, inhabited, and, crucially, transformed.

Author : Stacey Olster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441182470

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Don DeLillo by Stacey Olster Pdf

A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Don DeLillo, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field. The book offers new perspectives on two of the most important pre-millennial novels by any American writer Mao II and Underworld and the first extended discussions of Falling Man, DeLillo's exploration of 9/11 and its aftermath. An American Studies approach to the texts brings together both established DeLillo scholars and other academics whose interdisciplinary methodologies drawn from history, ethnic studies, new economic criticism, women's studies, art history, and urban studies shed new light on DeLillo's work and demonstrate its wide-ranging significance in contemporary American culture.

Author : Mary C. Foltz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030465308

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Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture by Mary C. Foltz Pdf

Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including pollution of waterways, environmental racism, and militarism. Primarily examining postmodern parody, the book shows the value of aesthetic renderings of sanitary engineering for composting ideologies that fuel a ruinous impact on the world. Drawing on late twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers Norman O. Brown, Frantz Fanon, and Leo Bersani, American Sh*t shows the continued relevance of psychoanalytic interpretations of contemporary fiction for understanding post-45 authors’ engagement with waste. Ultimately, the monograph reveals how novelists Ishmael Reed, Jonathan Franzen, Gloria Naylor, Don DeLillo, and Samuel R. Delany critique subjects who abnegate their status as waste-producing beings and bring readers back to embrace Winner of the 2019 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for Literary Criticism of English Language Literature

Author : Amy Hungerford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400834914

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Postmodern Belief by Amy Hungerford Pdf

How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg's chant-infused 1960s poetry echoes the tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why McCarthy's prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison's fiction needs the supernatural. Uncovering how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent efforts to discard the importance of belief in understanding religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing into a religious act. Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture.

Author : Catherine Morley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135899592

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The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction by Catherine Morley Pdf

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.