Samuel Chase Coale

Paradigms of Paranoia

The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that contemporary culture - a landscape characterized by doubt, ambiguity, fragmentation, information overload, and mistrust - has fostered a radical scepticism so pervasive that the tendency to envision or construct conspiracies often provides the best explanation for the chaos that surrounds us.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780817359508
• ISBN-10: 0817359508
• Artikelnr.: 62580044

Autorenporträt

Samuel Chase Coale is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and author of Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American Romance and The Mystery of Mysteries: Cultural Differences and Designs.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. 1. The Conspiracy of Postmodernism as Suspect and Sublime
3. 2. Conspiracy and Apocalypse in Popular Culture
4. 3. Conspiracy in Fiction: From Da Vinci to Damascus
5. 4. Joan Didion: The Fatal Glamour of Conspiracy
6. 5. Don DeLillo: Mystic Musings in a Paranoid’s Paradise
7. 6. Thomas Pynchon: The Functions of Conspiracy and the Performance of
Paranoia
8. 7. Toni Morrison’s Trilogy of Obsession: “Something Rogue” and Conspiracy’s
Comeuppance
9. Epilogue
10. Notes
11. Works Cited
12. Index