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Douglas Coupland / / Andrew Tate



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Autore: Tate Andrew <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Douglas Coupland / / Andrew Tate Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910791949603321
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Serie: Contemporary American & Canadian Writers