Melissa Lam

Disenfranchised from America

Reinventing Language and Love in Nabokov and Pynchon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which Nabokov and Pynchon manipulate fictional strategies to de-familiarize our perceptions of everyday objects and people. Estranging everyday perceptions allows us to more intensely examine critical issues of morality and identity that have become exhausted with over-examination to the point of cliché.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 173g
• ISBN-13: 9780761846192
• ISBN-10: 0761846190
• Artikelnr.: 26330788

Autorenporträt

Melissa Lam is a faculty member of the English department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She specializes in Contemporary Literature and is currently working on her next book project, on the subject of Chinese magical realism and the Asian Diaspora. Lam is a graduate of McGill and Canterbury Universities.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Dedication
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Section I: Lolita
Chapter 4 1.) Trickery and Linguistic Deviance
Chapter 5 2.) Freud and American Suburbia
Chapter 6 3.) Defamiliarization and Landscape
Chapter 7 4.) The Underworld: America as a Movie
Chapter 8 5.) The Resuscitation of the Romance Genre
Chapter 9 6.) Defamiliarization and Language
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Chapter 11 Section II: The Crying Lot 49
Chapter 12 7.) The Inside-Outsider: Defamiliarization and the Narrator
Chapter 13 8.) Illegitimacy and Disruptive Imagination
Chapter 14 9.) W.A.S.T.E. Everywhere: Pynchon at the Movies
Chapter 15 10.) 'The Direct Apocalyptic Word': Defamiliarization and
Bakhtin
Chapter 16 Conclusion
Chapter 17 Final Remarks
Chapter 18 Bibliography
Chapter 19 End Notes
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Author