In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, he shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. In the process, he produces "compelling new accounts of identity politics and postmodernism that...
In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the...
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons s Watchmen has been widely hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel. It was not only aesthetically groundbreaking but also anticipated future developments in politics, literature, and intellectual property. Demonstrating a keen eye for historical detail, Considering Watchmen gives readers a new appreciation of just how radical Moore and Gibbons s blend of gritty realism and formal experimentation was back in 1986. The book also considers Watchmen s place in the history of the comics industry, reading the graphic novel s...
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons s Watchmen has been widely hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel. It was not only aesthetica...
Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of postmodernism, new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have redefined the field. "Postmodern/Postwar and After "aims to be a field-defining book a sourcebook for the new and emerging critical terrain that explores the postmodern/postwar period and what comes...
Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first centu...
