"Reading Contemporary Picturbooks is happily more eclectic than a primer. Part social scientist and part literary critic, Lewis approaches his subject through a combination of taxonomical evaluation and meditative analysis, producing an even-handed evaluation of Emil Award-winning British picture books published during the last twenty years. Philip."
Table of Contents: I. Introduction: The Fiction in the Story and the Story in the Fiction II. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Postmodern Text III. Toward Transcendence: Reading and Writing in Raymond Carver's Fiction IV. Reading the Landscape: Richard Ford's New Realism V. Beyond Ethnicity: Realism and Postmodernism in Louise Eldrich's Novels VI. Reading and Storytelling in Selected Fiction of the Vietnam War VII. Epilogue: An Extended Map Reading of Contemporary American Fiction VIII. Works Cited