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Contemporary American Fiction
An Introduction to American Fiction since 1970
Kenneth Millard
Price: £23.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-871178-0
Publication date: 21 September 2000
336 pages, 216x138 mm
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| - 'This comparatively slender volume has a lot to offer.. The author provides convincing analysis and fresh observations, which create a 'literary map' for the readers to start their own explorations of vital and diverse US literary development. What's also important, he does this in a clear language, practically devoid of professional jargon.' - Vladimir Prozorov, Karelian Pedagogical
University. American Studies International Vol xxxix, No 2.
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| Description | | - First book of its kind to offer a wide ranging survey of recent developments in American fiction
- Substantial and detailed analysis of more than thirty different novels
- Innovative critical structure considering a range of novels in relation to eachother
- Combines analyses of established writers with younger American novelists
| | Contemporary American Fiction
provides an introduction to American fiction since 1970. Offering substantial and detailed interpretations of more than thirty texts by thirty different writers, Millard combines them in an innovative critical structure designed to promote debates on cultural politics and aesthetic value. The book is the first of its kind to offer a wide-ranging survey of
recent developments in the fiction of the United States. Recent novels by established writers such as John Updike and Philip Roth are analysed alongside the fiction of younger writers such as Gish Jen and Sherman Alexie. The books innovative structure encourages new ways of thinking about how American writers might be configured in relation to each other, while providing an analysis of how
contemporary fiction has responded to changes in central areas of American life such as the family, the media, technology, and consumerism. Contemporary American Fiction
is a substantial critical introduction to some of the most exciting fiction of the last thirty years, an eclectic and thorough advertisement for the extraordinary vitality of American fiction at the end of the twentieth
century. This is an excellent introduction to the subject for undergraduate students of modern American literature.
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Readership: Undergraduate students on English Literature, American Studies or cultural studies courses taking modules in American Literature, particularly 20th Century American Literature. General readers with an interest in contemporary American fiction.
| Contents |
1.
The Family
2.
The West
3.
Gender and History
4.
Imagining Subjectivity
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Language and Power
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The Short Story
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Sport
8.
Consumerism, Media, Technology
Further Reading
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Kenneth Millard, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh
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