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Autore |
Belgaid Bouchra <1972-> |
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Titolo |
John Irving and cultural mourning [[electronic resource] /] / Bouchra Belgaid |
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Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-61387-5 |
0-7391-3795-6 |
9786613926326 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Narcissism in literature |
Grief in literature |
Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century |
Postmodernism (Literature) - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Postmodernism or the literature of exhaustion -- The sixties: years of throwing off inhibitions -- Irving's family romances -- Irving and narcissism -- Mourning and grief in Irving's fiction -- Epilogue. The fourth hand and groping toward self-redemption. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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John Irving and Cultural Mourning offers a chronological survey of his eleven novels, examining his prose via thematically focused chapters on postmodernism, the sixties, fatherhood, narcissism, mourning and finally self-redemption. |
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