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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808310103321

Autore

Tate Andrew <1971->

Titolo

Douglas Coupland / / Andrew Tate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2007

ISBN

1-84779-673-7

1-78170-120-2

1-84779-192-1

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Literature

Literature: History & Criticism

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

Literature: history & criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of abbreviations; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Coupland's contexts; 2 'Denarration' or getting a life: Coupland and narrative; 3 '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 Coupland in the future; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

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