The Cambridge Introduction To Contemporary American Fiction
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Author | : Stacey Olster |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2017-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108394094 |
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The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the end of the Cold War and globalization, 9/11, borderlands and border identities, race, and the legacy of postmodern aesthetics - this Introduction locates contemporary American fiction at the intersection of a specific time and long-standing traditions. In the process, it investigates the entire concept of what constitutes an “American” author while exploring the vexed, yet resilient, nature of what the concept of home has come to signify in so much writing today. This wide-ranging study will be invaluable to students, instructors, and general readers alike.
Author | : John N. Duvall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521196310 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Author | : Joshua Miller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2021-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108838278 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
Author | : Bryan M. Santin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2021-03-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108974236 |
Download Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Bryan M. Santin examines over a half-century of intersection between American fiction and postwar conservatism. He traces the shifting racial politics of movement conservatism to argue that contemporary perceptions of literary form and aesthetic value are intrinsically connected to the rise of the American Right. Instead of casting postwar conservatives as cynical hustlers or ideological fanatics, Santin shows how the long-term rhetorical shift in conservative notions of literary value and prestige reveal an aesthetic antinomy between high culture and low culture. This shift, he argues, registered and mediated the deeper foundational antinomy structuring postwar conservatism itself: the stable social order of traditionalism and the creative destruction of free-market capitalism. Postwar conservatives produced, in effect, an ambivalent double register in the discourse of conservative literary taste that sought to celebrate neo-aristocratic manifestations of cultural capital while condemning newer, more progressive manifestations revolving around racial and ethnic diversity.
Author | : Travis M. Foster |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2022-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110889609X |
Download The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a material encumbrance. Each of these different approaches brings with it a range of anthropological, political, theological, and psychological discourses that explore and construct identities and subject positions. This Companion examines connections between American literature and bodies from the eighteenth century through the present. It reveals the singular way that literature can help us understand the body's entanglement within social and biological influences, and it traces the body's existence within histories of race, gender, and ability. This volume details the genres, critical fields, and interpretive practices that best facilitate the analysis of bodies in the full span of American literary imaginings.
Author | : Sarah Ensor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108841902 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.
Author | : Kenneth Millard |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2007-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748629548 |
Download Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel, or the Bildungsroman. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood, often presented through depictions of immediate family relationships and other social structures. This book considers a variety of different American cultures (in terms of race, class and gender) and a range of contemporary coming-of-age novels, so that aesthetic judgements about the fiction might be made in the context of the social history that fiction represents. A series of questions are asked:* Does the coming-of-age moment in these novels coincide with an interpretation of the 'fall' of America?* What kind of national commentary does it therefore facilitate?* Is the Bildungsroman a quintessentially American genre?* What can it usefully tell us about contemporary American culture? Although the focus is on the conte
Author | : Yogita Goyal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107085209 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.
Author | : Martin Scofield |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2006-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139457659 |
Download The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver. The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a general view of their work and detailed discussion of a number of examples of individual stories. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to this rich literary tradition. It will be invaluable to students and readers looking for critical approaches to the short story and wishing to deepen their understanding of how authors have approached and developed this fascinating and challenging genre. Further reading suggestions are included to explore the subject in more depth. This is an invaluable overview for all students and readers of American fiction.
Author | : William Solomon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108429181 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.