John Irving and cultural mourning [[electronic resource] /] / Bouchra Belgaid
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| Autore: |
Belgaid Bouchra <1972->
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| Titolo: |
John Irving and cultural mourning [[electronic resource] /] / Bouchra Belgaid
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (202 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | Narcissism in literature |
| Grief in literature | |
| Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Postmodernism (Literature) - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | John Irving and cultural mourning |
| ISBN: | 1-283-61387-5 |
| 0-7391-3795-6 | |
| 9786613926326 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463276303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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