Hikaru Fujii

Outside, America

The Temporal Turn in Contemporary American Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781441161871
• ISBN-10: 1441161872
• Artikelnr.: 36958003

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: America and Outside
Part I: Space of Outside
1. Dear American Road: The End of the Road in Annie Proulx's Postcards and Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul
2. Where the Tides Rise and Ebb: Power and "America" in Steve Erickson's Rubicon Beach
3. Journey to the End of the Father: Battlefield of Masculinity in Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast
4. The American Traveler's Love And Solitude: The Pragmatics of the Double in William T. Vollmann's The Atlas
Part II: Practices of Outside
5. Nietzsche, Crime Fiction, and Question of Masculinity in Denis Johnson's Already Dead: A California Gothic
6. A Man with a Green Memory: Cinema, War and Freedom in Stephen Wright's Meditations in Green
7. Time and Again: The Outside and the Narrative Pragmatics in The Body Artist
8. WWDD (What Would Disney Do)?: Cinematic Field and Narrative Act in Richard Powers's Prisoner's Dilemma
Chapter 9: Writing from a Different "Now": Question of Ahistorical Time in Contemporary Los Angeles Fiction
Conclusion: The Temporal Turn in American Fiction
Bibliography
Index