Coming of age in contemporary American fiction / / Kenneth Millard
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| Autore: |
Millard Kenneth
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| Titolo: |
Coming of age in contemporary American fiction / / Kenneth Millard
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 813.5409354 |
| Soggetto topico: | Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism |
| American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Russell Banks, Rule of the bone -- Brady Udall, The miracle life of Edgar Mint -- Geoffrey Wolff, The age of consent -- Gish Jen, Mona in the promised land -- Jeffrey Eugenides, The virgin suicides -- Rick Moody, Purple America -- Scott Bradfield, The history of luminous motion -- Mark Richard, Fishboy -- Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping -- Josephine Humphreys, Rich in love -- Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina -- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac nation. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the coming-of-age novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Coming of age in contemporary American fiction |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-5174-8 |
| 9786610833986 | |
| 1-280-83398-X | |
| 0-7486-2954-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784463203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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