Jonathan Lethem

Informationen zum Autor James Peacock Lecturer in English and American Literature at Keele University Klappentext Students and lecturers in contemporary American literature Zusammenfassung Students and lecturers in contemporary American literature -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Series editor's forewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Genre collisions and mutations1. Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music2. The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon3. Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table4. Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape5. 'We learned to tell our story walking': Tourette's and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn6. Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude7. 'Hiding in plain sight': reality and secrecy in You Don't Love Me Yet and Chronic CityConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Peacock, James Peacock
• Assisted by: Sharon Monteith (Editor), Nahem Yousaf (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780719082672
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8267-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Cana; Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Cana
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies