Reading Michael Chabon

Informationen zum Autor Helene Meyers is professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. Klappentext The world of Michael Chabon comes alive in the first full-length, analytical guide devoted to this brilliantly creative writer.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon is considered one of the most distinguished contemporary American novelists. Reading Michael Chabon , the first full-length volume on the writer, views his career as bridging the gap between literary and popular culture. Designed for book club members and high school and college students, this reference guide will help readers keep track of Chabon's intricate plots and draw thematic connections between and among his major novels. It will also help them understand his fiction as cultural commentary on contemporary masculinity and Jewish identity.The book treats both Chabon's life and work, including film adaptations of his novels, his love affair with comics, and his forays into detective and adventure fiction. A chapter is dedicated to each of his major novels, including Mysteries of Pittsburgh , Wonder Boys , The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay , and The Yiddish Policemen's Union . Zusammenfassung The world of Michael Chabon comes alive in the first full-length! analytical guide devoted to this brilliantly creative writer. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon is considered one of the most distinguished contemporary American novelists.

Product details

• Authors: Helene Meyers, Meyers Helene
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2010
• EAN: 9780313355509
• ISBN: 978-0-313-35550-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: The Pop Lit Book Club; The Pop Lit Book Club
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: general, Adult Services and Programs