Understanding Jonathan Lethem

Offers a study of the novels, short fiction, and non-fiction of American novelist Jonathan Lethem. Matthew Luter explores the key contemporaries of and influences on Lethem, who is the Roy Edward Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College. The volume includes readings of Lethem's three major novels - Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City.

About the author

Matthew Luter is on the English faculty at the Webb School of Knoxville in Tennessee. He has published articles on Don DeLillo, Ellen Douglas, Bret Easton Ellis, and Amiri Baraka, among others.

Summary

A study of the influences and obsessions of an award-winning American novelist

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Luter
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781611175127
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-512-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General