The New American Novel of Manners - The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas Mcguane

Informationen zum Autor JEROME KLINKOWITZ is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author or editor of many books on postwar culture and literature, among them Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction , Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World , and The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present . Klappentext Explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America! novelists such as Richard Yates! Dan Wakefield! and Thomas McGuane located America's modern-day manners in its semiotics.

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• Authors: Jerome Klinkowitz
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2012
• EAN: 9780820339429
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3942-9
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General