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Informationen zum Autor Brian Jarvis is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture (Pluto, 1998) and Cruel and Unusual: A Cultural History of Punishment in America (Pluto, 2004) and of essays on topics including 'dirty realism', Vietnam War fiction, the literature and cinema of 9/11, and contemporary horror film.Paul Jenner is Lecturer in American Studies at Loughborough University, UK. He is currently working on a full-length study of the American philosopher Stanley Cavell, and his other research interests include American noir fiction, and theories and fictions of postmodernity. Vorwort Critical introduction to the contemporary american novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Zusammenfassung Offers an introduction to the American novel focusing on contexts, key texts, and criticism. This book registers the diversity of American writing and situates this work in historical contexts that include Reaganomics, the Clinton years and the post-9/11 'War on Terror'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editors' Preface \ Part 1 Contexts \ 1. ‘Who Are We?': social and cultural contexts of the contemporary American novel \ 2. ‘Why Bother?': literary and intellectual contexts of the contemporary American novel \ Review, reading and research \ Part 2 Texts \ 3. Consuming Fictions: American Psycho (1991), Fight Club (1996) \ 4. Between Black and White: Beloved (1987), The Human Stain (2000) \ 5. The Contemporary Americas Novel: Blood Meridian (1985), Almanac of the Dead (1991), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) \ 6. Global Narratives: Underworld (1997), Pattern Recognition (2003) Review, reading and research \ Part 3 Wider Contexts \ 7. Afterlives and adaptations: the contemporary American novel on film, video and the web \ 8. Critical contexts: approaches to the contemporary American novel Review, reading and research \ Bibliography and sources \ Index...
