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Informationen zum Autor David Coughlan is Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Klappentext This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan¿s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter¿that is, without ghost writing. Zusammenfassung This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx . Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter—that is, without ghost writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Chapter One. Introduction: Of Spectrality Ghost Writing Chapter Two. Mimes and Phantoms: Don DeLillo Shadows Chapter Three. One Pace After the Other: Paul Auster Haunts Chapter Four. Exit Ghost Writer: Philip Roth Of "Spirit" Chapter Five. Passing Through: Marilynne Robinson Death Sentence Chapter Six. Gone sometime. Home to stay: Marilynne Robinson Ghostpitality Chapter Seven. Haunted Homes: Toni Morrison Notes Works Cited Index ...
