Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011

Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011 explores rock music and literature through the works of a diverse set of American writers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book foregrounds how popular music has inspired and transformed American literary production at the crossroads between modernism and postmodernism.

Sommario

Chapter 1: 'How Does it Feel?': Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Rock Music's Liberating Potential in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Alice Walker's "Nineteen Fifty-Five"
Chapter 2: 'Renaissance on Main Street': Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and the Discovery of a New Language in Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street
Chapter 3: 'You Don't Own Me': Girl-Group Rock and the Subversion of the Male Gaze in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides
Chapter 4: 'Anarchy on the Rez': The Blues, Colonial Resistance and the Negotiation of a Native-American Identity in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
Chapter 5: 'No Future': Time, Punk Rock and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad
Conclusion: And In the End...

Info autore

By Martin Moling

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Martin Moling
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781793647238
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-723-8
• Pagine: 294
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000