LEADER 03345nam 2200553 450 001 9910815654503321 005 20230803195953.0 010 $a1-61117-428-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000574727 035 $a(OCoLC)895049080 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10978550 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001370305 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11978591 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001370305 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11310335 035 $a(PQKB)11058797 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2054884 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35417 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2054884 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10978550 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL658280 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000574727 100 $a20141124h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnderstanding Dave Eggers /$fTimothy W. Galow 210 1$aColumbia, South Carolina :$cThe University of South Carolina Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (152 p.) 225 1 $aUnderstanding Contemporary American Literature 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-27000-7 311 $a1-61117-427-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Understanding Dave Eggers surveys the work of one of the most celebrated American authors of the twenty-first century and is the first book-length study incorporating Eggers's novels, short-story collections, and film scripts. With a style aimed at students and general readers alike, Timothy W. Galow offers a textual analysis that uniquely combines Eggers's early autobiographical works and the subject of celebrity as well as his later texts that deal with humanitarian issues. Galow devotes a chapter to each of Eggers's major works, from his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, though his recent novel, A Hologram for the King, a National Book Award finalist about an aging American businessman chasing success in Saudi Arabia. Other chapters cover You Shall Know Our Velocity, What Is the What, and Zeitoun. Each chapter studies the major themes and styles of the featured work while also placing it in the context of Eggers's oeuvre. In this way Galow examines each text in its own right, but he also offers us a larger guide to all of Egger's work. Providing important historical background for understanding Eggers's literary work, Galow examines how Eggers's texts are deeply invested in both his own public persona and the changing cultural conditions in the United States over the past twenty years. Galow's careful analysis is conveyed in clear language that engages issues important to contemporary critics without being pedantic or jargon laden. As a result Understanding Dave Eggers can serve as a useful introduction to the author's work or a valuable resource for the devoted reader"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aUnderstanding contemporary American literature. 676 $a813/.6 686 $aLIT004020$aLIT000000$2bisacsh 700 $aGalow$b Timothy W.$01687001 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815654503321 996 $aUnderstanding Dave Eggers$94060133 997 $aUNINA