LEADER 04346nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910791533503321 005 20230725020050.0 010 $a1-78034-321-3 010 $a0-7486-2981-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748629817 035 $a(CKB)2560000000056362 035 $a(EBL)3053773 035 $a(OCoLC)712992271 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11300086 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10529719 035 $a(PQKB)11452319 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053773 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3053773 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10400657 035 $a(DE-B1597)616680 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748629817 035 $a(OCoLC)1302162406 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000056362 100 $a20100625d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContemporary American fiction$b[electronic resource] /$fDavid Brauner 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 225 1 $aEdinburgh critical guides to literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-2267-5 311 $a0-7486-2268-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Series Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chronology""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 The space reserved for irony: Irony and Paradox in Don DeLillo's White Noise, Paul Auster's City of Glass and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho""; ""Chapter 2 Silence, Secrecy and Sexuality: Alternate Histories in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, Carol Shields The Stone Diaries and Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex"" 327 $a""Chapter 3 Nes and Yo: Race, Ethnicity and Hybridity in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land, Philip Roth's The Human Stain and Richard Powers The Time of Our Singing""""Chapter 4 Contemporary American Fiction Goes to Hollywood: Genre in the Texts and Films of Cold Mountain, Brokeback Mountain and No Country for Old Men""; ""Conclusion""; ""Student Resources""; ""Index"" 330 $aThis is an accessible, lucid and incisive study that will prove indispensable to students and scholars of contemporary American fiction. Featuring a wide range of authors - from canonical figures such as Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Annie Proulx, to increasingly influential writers such as Jeffrey Eugenides, Gish Jen and Richard Powers - the book combines detailed readings of key texts with informative discussions of their historical, social and cultural contexts. There are chapters focusing on formal characteristics (the use of irony and paradox in novels by Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Bret Easton Ellis, and the generic properties of the texts and films of Cold Mountain, Brokeback Mountain and No Country for Old Men) and on thematic concerns (the representation of gender and sexuality in novels by Jane Smiley, Carol Shields and Jeffrey Eugenides, and of ethnicity, race and hybridity in fiction by Gish Jen, Philip Roth and Richard Powers). Running through all these chapters is an interrogation of all three elements making up the phrase 'contemporary American fiction'.Key Features Identifies some of the main trends in contemporary American fiction and situates them in historical and cultural contexts Discusses a representative range of recent fiction, providing a sense of the rich diversity of the field and of its key themes and modes of writing Introduces students to a variety of critical approaches to, and debates concerning, contemporary American fiction Encourages reflection on the nature of national, gender, ethnic and generic identities 410 0$aEdinburgh critical guides to literature. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.5409 700 $aBrauner$b David$f1968-$01178452 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791533503321 996 $aContemporary American fiction$93734760 997 $aUNINA