Beyond Suspicion - New American Fiction Since 196

Informationen zum Autor Marc Chenetier is Professor of American Literature at the University of Paris VII-Denis Diderot/Institut Universitaire de France. He has served as a visiting professor at Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, University of East Anglia, and elsewhere. Klappentext In this landmark study, Marc Chenetier provides a synthetic view of developments in American fiction between 1960 and the 1990s. Beyond Suspicion focuses primarily on the works of Gaddis, Pynchon, Elkin, McElroy, Hawkes, Nabokov, Gass, Barth, and Coover, although a host of other writers are discussed as well. Chenetier argues that traditional generic approaches to this body of work are misleading. He rejects the categorization of works by their writer's region, race, and gender, and suggests instead an examination of works from a variety of artistic and epistemological viewpoints. Chenetier's status as outsider - geographically speaking - fosters this approach; from his critical distance, he is able to look on American letters with a very specific and individual point of view. Beyond Suspicion is notable too for the grace with which it links the concerns of French literary theory with those of American fiction. Zusammenfassung In his book Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction since 1960! Marc Chenetier analyzes the developments in recent American fiction! arguing that traditional generic approaches can be misleading.

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• Authors: Marc Ch Netier, Ch&, Marc Chenetier, Marc Chénetier
• Assisted by: Elizabeth a Houlding (Translation), Elizabeth A. Houlding (Translation)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.1996
• EAN: 9780812230598
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-3059-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary A; Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction; Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction; Penn Studies in Contemporary A
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies