Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985-2015

Informationen zum Autor Heath A. Diehl is Teaching Professor in the Department of English and Honors College at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Wasted: Performing Addiction in America. Klappentext The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Bearing Witness: Leaving Las Vegas (1990); 2. Betraying: Dope (2006); 3. Gaslighting: The Girl on the Train (2015); 4. Transgressing: Less Than Zero (1985); 5. Disorienting: The Orange Eats Creeps (2010); Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Heath A. Diehl, Diehl Heath A.
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781839985669
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-566-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000, Literature; Literary studies and criticism