LEADER 04681nam 2200769 450 001 9910810329003321 005 20191209100109.0 010 $a1-78170-629-8 010 $a1-84779-465-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276890 035 $a(EBL)1069716 035 $a(OCoLC)818847524 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000784964 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12298873 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784964 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10783104 035 $a(PQKB)11014041 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000237222 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069716 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069716 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10627273 035 $a(OCoLC)1164786883 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78452 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992979819626401631 035 $a(DE-B1597)660869 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847794659 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276890 100 $a20191209h20132012 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJonathan Lethem /$fJames Peacock 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (200 pages) $cdigital file(s) 225 1 $aContemporary American and Canadian writers 300 $aAvailable through ManchesterHive. 300 $aMUP 2020 titles. 311 $a0-7190-8267-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSeries editor's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Genre collisions and mutations -- 1. Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music -- 2. The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon -- 3. Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table -- 4. Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape -- 5. 'We learned to tell our story walking': Tourette's and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn -- 6. Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude -- 7. 'Hiding in plain sight': reality and secrecy in You Don't Love Me Yet and Chronic City -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aJonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high profile in American literature. Examining all of Lethem's novels, as well as a number of his short fictions, essays and critical works, this study shows how the author's prolific output, his restlessness and his desire always to be subverting literary forms and genres, are consistent with his interest in subcultural identities. The human need to break off into small groupings, subcultures or miniature utopias is mirrored in the critical tendency to enforce generic boundaries. To break down the boundaries between genres, then, is partly to make a nonsense of critical distinctions between 'high' and 'low' literature, and partly to reflect the wider need to recognise difference, to appreciate that other people, no matter how outlandish and alien they may appear, share similar desires, experiences and problems. With this in mind, James Peacock argues that Lethem's experiments with genre are not merely games or elaborate literary jokes, but ethical necessities, particularly when viewed in the light of the losses and traumas that shadow all of his writing. Jonathan Lethem, therefore, makes an important contribution not just to Lethem studies, but also to debates about genre and its position in postmodern or 'post-postmodern' literature. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of contemporary American writing, as well as those interested in genre fiction and literature's relationship with subcultures. 410 0$aContemporary American and Canadian writers. 606 $aLiterature$2mup 606 $aLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers$2bicssc 606 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General$2bisach 606 $aAnthologies: general$2thema 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAmerican literature. 610 $aJonathan Lethem. 610 $agenre. 610 $asubcultures. 615 7$aLiterature 615 7$aLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers 615 7$aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General 615 7$aAnthologies: general 676 $a813.54 700 $aPeacock$b James$f1970-$01700956 712 02$aManchester University Press, 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810329003321 996 $aJonathan Lethem$94084378 997 $aUNINA