1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000089490403321

Autore

Navone, A. Carlo

Titolo

Passaggio sottomarino attraverso allo stretto di Messina per unire in comunicazione continua il sistema stradale ferroviario siciliano alla rete della penisola : progetto di massima / di A. Carlo Navone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino, : C. Favale e C., 1870

Descrizione fisica

146 p., 2 c. di tav. : ill. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

624.194

Locazione

FINBC

Collocazione

13 AR 14 D 05

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786202303321

Autore

Peacock James <1970->

Titolo

Jonathan Lethem / / James Peacock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2012

ISBN

1-78170-629-8

1-84779-465-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Literature

Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General

Anthologies: general

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Available through ManchesterHive.

MUP 2020 titles.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Genre collisions and mutations -- 1. Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music -- 2. The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon -- 3. Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table -- 4. Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape -- 5. 'We learned to tell our story walking': Tourette's and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn -- 6. Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude -- 7. 'Hiding in plain sight': reality and secrecy in You Don't Love Me Yet and Chronic City -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high profile in American literature. Examining all of Lethem's novels, as well as a number of his short fictions, essays and critical works, this study shows how the author's prolific output, his restlessness and his desire always to be subverting literary forms and genres, are consistent with his interest in subcultural identities. The human need to break off into small groupings, subcultures or miniature utopias is mirrored in the critical tendency to enforce generic boundaries. To break down the boundaries between genres, then, is partly to make a nonsense of critical distinctions between 'high' and 'low' literature, and partly to reflect the wider need to recognise difference, to appreciate that other people, no matter how outlandish and alien they may appear, share similar desires, experiences and problems. With this in mind, James Peacock argues that Lethem's experiments with genre are not merely games or elaborate literary jokes, but ethical necessities, particularly when viewed in the light of the losses and traumas that shadow all of his writing. Jonathan Lethem, therefore, makes an important contribution not just to Lethem studies, but also to debates about genre and its position in postmodern or 'post-postmodern' literature. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of contemporary American writing, as well as those interested in genre fiction and literature's relationship with subcultures.