LEADER 03663nam 2200829 450 001 9910791949603321 005 20191205095943.0 010 $a1-84779-673-7 010 $a1-78170-120-2 010 $a1-84779-192-1 024 7 $a10.7765/9781847791924 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085744 035 $a(EBL)1069581 035 $a(OCoLC)818847308 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000712755 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12296308 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712755 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10651296 035 $a(PQKB)10645306 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086862 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069581 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069581 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623222 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843534 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992979792026401631 035 $a(DE-B1597)660263 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847791924 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085744 100 $a20191205h20132007 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDouglas Coupland /$fAndrew Tate 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (200 pages) $cdigital file(s) 225 1 $aContemporary American and Canadian writers 225 0$aContemporary American and Canadian writers 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-7661-7 311 $a0-7190-7488-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aThis book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland's career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction. Emerging in the last decade of the twentieth century - amidst the absurd contradictions of instantaneous global communication and acute poverty - Coupland's novels, short stories, essays and visual art have intervened in 410 0$aContemporary American & Canadian Writers 606 $aLiterature$2mup 606 $aLiterature: History & Criticism$2bicssc 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General$2bisach 606 $aLiterature: history & criticism$2thema 610 $aAccelerated Culture. 610 $aDouglas Coupland. 610 $aGeneration X. 610 $aJPod. 610 $aMicroserfs. 610 $aMiss Wyoming. 610 $aartifice. 610 $aauthenticity. 610 $aglobal communication. 610 $apoverty. 615 7$aLiterature 615 7$aLiterature: History & Criticism 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General 615 7$aLiterature: history & criticism 676 $a813.54 700 $aTate$b Andrew$f1971-$01477692 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791949603321 996 $aDouglas Coupland$93694652 997 $aUNINA