Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, Paul Jenner

The Contemporary American Novel in Context (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Critical introduction to the contemporary american novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441132055
• Artikelnr.: 38301076

Autorenporträt

Andrew Dix is Lecturer in American Studies at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of Beginning Film Studies (Manchester University Press, 2008) and co-editor of Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000 (Sussex Academic Press, 2006); his other published work includes book chapters on Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Native American fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface \ Part 1 Contexts \ 1. 'Who Are We?': social and
cultural contexts of the contemporary American novel \ 2. 'Why Bother?':
literary and intellectual contexts of the contemporary American novel \
Review, reading and research \ Part 2 Texts \ 3. Consuming Fictions:
American Psycho (1991), Fight Club (1996) \ 4. Between Black and White:
Beloved (1987), The Human Stain (2000) \ 5. The Contemporary Americas
Novel: Blood Meridian (1985), Almanac of the Dead (1991), The Brief
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) \ 6. Global Narratives: Underworld
(1997), Pattern Recognition (2003) Review, reading and research \ Part 3
Wider Contexts \ 7. Afterlives and adaptations: the contemporary American
novel on film, video and the web \ 8. Critical contexts: approaches to the
contemporary American novel Review, reading and research \ Bibliography and
sources \ Index