American Literature in Transition, 19902000

This book explores the dynamics of literary change in the 1990s for American literature.

List of contents

Part I. End times: 1. American literature and the Millennium Jeremy Green; 2. Angels, ghosts and post secular visions Brian McHale; 3. Aging novelists and the end of the American century Marshall Boswell; 4. Violence Sean Grattan; 5. The end of the book David Ciccoricco; 6. The end of postmodernism Ralph Clare; Part II. Forms: 7. Enclyclopedic fictions Stephen J. Burn; 8. Historical fiction John N. Duvall; 9. Lyrical thinking in poetry of the '90s Thomas Gardner; 10. Story-cycles Paul March-Russell; 11. Materiality in the late age of print Mary K. Holland; 12. Manifestos Rachel Greenwalk Smith; 13. Revisionary strategies Christian Moraru; Part III. Interconnectivity: 14. Borders and mixed race fictions Aliki Varvogli; 15. Globalization Paul Giles; 16. The two cultures Novel Jon Adams; 17. Ecosystem Heather Houser; 18. Virtual reality Joseph Conte; Part IV. Public and Private Life: 19. Trauma Patrick O'Donnell; 20. Family Kasia Boddy; 21. Aids Lesley Larkin; Part V. Institutions: 22. The university 'after' theory Daniel Punday; 23. Independent presses Jeffrey R. Dileo.

About the author

Stephen J. Burn is the author of two other books (and editor of three more) about contemporary literature, which have been translated into Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. In 2010, he was picked as one of the best critics under forty by the New York Times, and was invited to write the essay that opened their feature on 'Why Criticism Matters'.

Summary

The book is for scholars and students of contemporary American literature who want to think beyond the narrower scope of the single-author or single-theoretical-perspective study to get a richer sense of a key decade's literary activity.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen J. Burn, Stephen J. (University of Glasgow) Burn
• Assisted by: Stephen J. Burn (Editor), Stephen J. (University of Glasgow) Burn (Editor), Burn Stephen J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107136014
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13601-4
• No. of pages: 396
• Series: American Literature in Transit; American Literature in Transition; American Literature in Transition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1990 to c 2000