Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Stacey Olster is Professor of English at Stony Brook University, a former Fulbright Fellow Scholar, and an award-winning teacher. She is the author of Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction (Cambridge, 1989) and The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century (2003), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Updike (Cambridge, 2006) and Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man (2011). Her articles on contemporary American literature and culture have appeared in essay collections and journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Critical Inquiry, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Critique. Klappentext This Introduction explores American fiction of the last thirty years, examining the political and cultural changes that distinguish the period. Zusammenfassung A wide-ranging study of contemporary American fiction! from the Sweet Home of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) to novels of the post-9/11 homeland. This Introduction explores fiction written over the last thirty years with respect to the political! historical! and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: from Sweet Home to homeland; 1. History and the novel; 2. Regional realism; 3. The contemporary political novel; 4. The novel and 9/11; 5. Smooth worlds; 6. Borderlands and border identities; 7. Race relations; Conclusion: postscripts and post-postmodernism; Works cited; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stacey Olster, Stacey (Stony Brook University Olster, Stacey Michele Olster, Olster Stacey
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107049215
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04921-5
• Seiten: 266
• Serien: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form