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Author: Jonathan Pountney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-04-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1474455522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America's most renowned short story writers.
Author: Pountney Jonathan Pountney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-04-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1474455530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceThe first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceExplores Carver's relationships with other contemporary and popular writers and artistsStudies the relationship between the rise of American neoliberalism and Carver's writingThe Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America's most renowned short story writers. Pountney contextualises Carver's legacy amongst contemporary debates about authenticity and craftsmanship in the neoliberal era, drawing new socioeconomic connections between Carver's work and American neoliberalism. This study presents new explorations of Carver's relationships with other contemporary writers, filmmakers and artists such as Murakami and Irritu, shedding fresh light on Carver's influence.
Author: Bernard A. Drew
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-03-08
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 078645721X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.
Author: Oliver Haslam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2024-09-05
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity. Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 responds to existing studies of literary minimalism by pursuing three original and interrelated objectives. It provides a more inclusive and precise definition of minimalism that enables further inquiry into the mode. It also exposes the presence of minimalism beyond critical demarcations that attempt to limit the aesthetic to a particular school, medium, movement, form or decade. Finally, it argues that writers of American literary minimalism are uniquely privileged in their ability to formalize precarity and threatening cultural currents into the fragile construct that is ordinary life. Building upon theories of affect and the everyday, Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 analyses minimalist aesthetics within the works of canonical minimalists alongside writers more frequently associated with other movements. Through readings of Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo, among others, and cultural phenomena ranging from sedation to telephony, this book exposes the persistence and political importance of minimalism within American literature from the 20th century into the 21st.
Author: Dines Martin Dines
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-03-02
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1474426506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how American writers articulate the complexity of twentieth-century suburbiaExamines the ways American writers from the 1960s to the present - including John Updike, Richard Ford, Gloria Naylor, Jeffrey Eugenides, D. J. Waldie, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Daz and John Barth - have sought to articulate the complexity of the US suburbsAnalyses the relationships between literary form and the spatial and temporal dimensions of the environment Scrutinises increasingly prominent literary and cultural forms including novel sequences, memoir, drama, graphic novels and short story cyclesCombines insights drawn from recent historiography of the US suburbs and cultural geography with analyses of over twenty-five texts to provide a fresh outlook on the literary history of American suburbiaThe Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960 responding to the defining habitat of twentieth-century USA: the suburbs. Martin Dines analyses how writers have innovated across a range of forms and genres - including novel sequences, memoirs, plays, comics and short story cycles - in order to make sense of the complexity of suburbia. Drawing on insights from recent historiography and cultural geography, Dines offers a new perspective on the literary history of the US suburbs. He argues that by giving time back to these apparently timeless places, writers help reactivate the suburbs, presenting them not as fixed, finished and familiar but rather as living, multifaceted environments that are still in production and under exploration.
Author: Zuzanna Ladyga
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1474442943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and David Foster Wallace provocatively challenge the ethos of productivity by filtering their ethical interventions through culturally stigmatised imagery of laziness.
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-07-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 147446159X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid-century US South, Living Jim Crow is the first extended scholarly study to explore how authors mobilised this setting as a tool for racial resistance.
Author: Geneva M. Gano
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1474439772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production.
Author: Bette London
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0801474663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault announced the death of the author several decades ago, critics have been slow to abandon the idea of the solitary writer. Bette London maintains that this notion has blinded us to the reality that writing is seldom an individual activity and that it has led us to overlook both the frequency with which women authors have worked together and the significance of their collaborative undertakings as a form of professional activity. In Writing Double, the first full-length treatment of women's literary partnerships, she goes to the heart of issues surrounding authorial identity. What is an author? Which forms of authorship are sanctioned and which forms marginalized? Which of these forms have particularly attracted women? Such questions are central to London's analysis of the challenge that women's literary collaboration presents to accepted notions of authorship. Focusing on British texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, she considers a fascinating variety of works by largely noncanonical, and in some instances highly unconventional, authors—from the enormously popular novels composed by writing teams at the turn of the century, to the Brontë juvenilia and the occult scripts of Georgie Yeats and W. B. Yeats, to automatic writings produced by mediums purporting to be in communication with the spirit world.
Author: Quinn Dalton
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780979304941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen stories. One question. What do you do when the life you knew becomes the Before? A college student working at a beer drive-through falls in love with the owner¿s wife and contemplates murder to claim her until he faces his own brush with death. A man who has kept his sexuality a secret from his family must come home to help his brother cope with the loss of his wife. A woman reunites with a man she loved in her youth, and reluctantly saves the life of the teenaged girl next door. A camera store clerk with photographs under his bed meets his new neighbor, who has her own secrets. And a soap opera writer struggles to extricate her love life from the familiar formulas. The men and women we meet in Stories from the Afterlife have only recently stumbled, due to choice or circumstance, into the unfamiliar territory of their new lives. We encounter them in Florida resort towns, 1950¿s rural North Carolina, 1980¿s rustbelt Ohio and in the suburban sheen of the New South, where they wrestle with secret aspirations, drunken confessions, dreamed predictions, and love¿lost or regained. We¿re with them all the way. Published previously in the country¿s finest literary magazines, including Crazyhorse, One Story, and Verb, these stories build a powerful collection that you won¿t want to miss.
