Douglas Coupland

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Tate is Lecturer in English at Lancaster University Klappentext This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland's career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction. Emerging in the last decade of the twentieth century - amidst the absurd contradictions of instantaneous global communication and acute poverty - Coupland's novels, short stories, essays and visual art have intervened in specifically contemporary debates regarding authenticity, artifice and art. This book explores Coupland's response, in ground-breaking novels such as Microserfs, Girlfriend in a Coma and Miss Wyoming, to some of the most pressing issues of our times. Designed for students, researchers and general readers alike, the study is structured around thematically focused chapters that consider Coupland's engagement with narrative, consumer culture, space, religion and ideas of the future. Zusammenfassung This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland’s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Coupland's contexts2. 'Denarration' or Getting a Life: Coupland and narrative3. 'I am not a Target Market': Coupland consumption and junk culture 4. Nowhere, anywhere, somewhere: Coupland and space 5. 'You are the first generation raised without religion': Coupland and postmodern spirituality 6. Conclusion: JPod and the future

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew Tate, Tate Andrew
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780719074882
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7488-2
• Pagine: 200
• Serie: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Cana; Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Cana
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Canada, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 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, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form