Wilderness City : The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman

ISBN-13: 9780415975506 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 180 str.

Ted L. Clontz

Opis

The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of literature and culture that make up the U.S. are more generally found, using the theories and concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his concept of the "chronotope," or "spacetime."

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Nelson Algren's No Exit: The Urban Jail Chapter 2 Ellison and Pynchon: The Chaotic and Fabulous Cities Chapter 3 Continuing to Redefine the Urban Time-Space Chapter 4 Wilderness City Chapter 5 Re-imagining the Postcolonial City Chapter 6 John Edgar Wideman: Bringing It All Back Home Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

Ted Clontz visiting lecture in English at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan