Literary Selves - Autobiography and Contemporary American Nonfiction

List of contents

Introduction: Presentations of Self in Contemporary American Nonfiction
Self and the Performance of Others: The Pastoral Vision of John McPhee
Joe McGinniss' Fatal Vision: The Search for an Anti/Heroic Self
The Cultural Gamesmanship of Tom Wolfe
The Minimal Self: Joan Didion's Journalism of Survival
Hunter S. Thompson: A Ritual Reenactment of Deviant Behavior
The Armies of the Night: Norman Mailer's Performing Self
Conclusion: The Therapeutic and "Hidden" Selves
Bibliography
Index

About the author

JAMES N. STULL is Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of English at Iowa State University. His academic specialties include contemporary nonfiction, American literature, and advertising and other aspects of popular culture, and his publications in these areas have appeared in the Connecticut Review, the North Dakota Quarterly, the Canadian Review of American Studies, and the Journal of Popular Culture.

Product details

• Authors: James N. Stull, Stull James N.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.1993
• EAN: 9780313288258
• ISBN: 978-0-313-28825-8
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, The Arts: World Literature