Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781137410238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str.

David Coughlan

Opis

This fascinating new book explores the figure of the writer as ghost in contemporary American fiction, focusing on the work of five authors (Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson and Philip Roth). Framed by the work of Jacques Derrida, Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction demonstrates how the central theme of the ghost writer relates to an ethics of writing involving questions of personal and social responsibility, record and repetition, memory and forgetfulness, and faithfulness and betrayal.

Spis treści

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter One. Introduction: Of Spectrality

Ghost Writing

Chapter Two. Mimes and Phantoms: Don DeLillo

Shadows

Chapter Three. One Pace After the Other: Paul Auster

Haunts

Chapter Four. Exit Ghost Writer: Philip Roth

Of "Spirit"

Chapter Five. Passing Through: Marilynne Robinson

Death Sentence

Chapter Six. Gone sometime. Home to stay: Marilynne Robinson

Ghostpitality

Chapter Seven. Haunted Homes: Toni Morrison

Notes

Works Cited

Index

O autorze

David Coughlan is Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick, Ireland.