Understanding Michael Chabon

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has emerged as one of the most daring writers of American fiction in the post-Pynchon era. Joseph Dewey examines how Chabon's narratives have sought to bring together the defining elements of the two principal expressions of the American narrative that his generation inherited: the formal extravagances of postmodernism and the compelling storytelling of psychological realism.

About the author

Joseph Dewey is an associate professor of contemporary American literature for the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He has authored In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper of the American Novel in the Nuclear Age, Novels from Reagan's America: A New Realism, Understanding Richard Powers, and Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo. Dewey has also edited casebooks on Henry James, Don DeLillo, and J. D. Salinger.

Summary

An exploration of Chabon s career-long fascination with the consolations and dangers of the imagination

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Dewey, Joseph O. Dewey
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2014
• EAN: 9781611173390
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-339-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies