02370nam 2200613 a 450 991078854220332120230126211446.01-283-61387-50-7391-3795-69786613926326(CKB)3360000000435066(EBL)1037693(OCoLC)855502439(SSID)ssj0000720999(PQKBManifestationID)12328532(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720999(PQKBWorkID)10687692(PQKB)10499843(MiAaPQ)EBC1037693(Au-PeEL)EBL1037693(CaPaEBR)ebr10606802(CaONFJC)MIL392632(EXLCZ)99336000000043506620100927d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn Irving and cultural mourning[electronic resource] /Bouchra BelgaidLanham, Md. Lexington Booksc20111 online resource (202 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-3793-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and indexes.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.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.Narcissism in literatureGrief in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPostmodernism (Literature)United StatesNarcissism in literature.Grief in literature.Literature and societyHistoryPostmodernism (Literature)813/.54Belgaid Bouchra1972-1509840MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788542203321John Irving and cultural mourning3742017UNINA