Author: Joshua MillerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction
Author: Joshua MillerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945
Author: John N. DuvallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature
Author: Yogita GoyalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107085209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.
A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914
Author: Robert Paul LambPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405178310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children’s literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction
The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics
Author: Bryan SantinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
Author: Christopher N. PhillipsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108372813
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory for generations. F. O. Matthiessen coined the term in 1941 to describe the years 1850–1855, which saw the publications of major writings by Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. This Companion takes up the concept of the American Renaissance and explores its origins, meaning, and longevity. Essays by distinguished scholars move chronologically from the formative reading of American Renaissance authors to the careers of major figures ignored by Matthiessen, including Stowe, Douglass, Harper, and Longfellow. The volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
Author: Eric Carl LinkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107052467
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.
Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Author: Peter BoxallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107244498
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament – one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolaño. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
Author: Joy PorterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction
Author: Paula GeyhPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108179444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this remarkable period. It traces the development of postmodern American fiction over the past half-century and explores its key aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. It examines its principal styles and genres, from the early experiments with metafiction to the most recent developments, such as the graphic novel and digital fiction, and offers concise, compelling readings of many of its major works. An indispensable resource for students, scholars, and the general reader, the Companion both highlights the extraordinary achievements of postmodern American fiction and provides illuminating critical frameworks for understanding it.