Douglas Coupland / / Andrew Tate
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| Autore: |
Tate Andrew <1971->
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| Titolo: |
Douglas Coupland / / Andrew Tate
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (200 pages) : digital file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 813.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature |
| Literature: History & Criticism | |
| LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General | |
| Literature: history & criticism | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Accelerated Culture |
| Douglas Coupland | |
| Generation X. | |
| JPod | |
| Microserfs | |
| Miss Wyoming | |
| artifice | |
| authenticity | |
| global communication | |
| poverty | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Douglas Coupland |
| ISBN: | 1-84779-673-7 |
| 1-78170-120-2 | |
| 1-84779-192-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808310103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Contemporary American & Canadian Writers