Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Modern - 20th Century

There was a time when "the Beats" seemed a familiar, even fixed, pantheon: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso, Ferlinghetti, with Neil Cassady as Wild Boy and icon and Gary Snyder as Buddhist and eco-guru.

But we have infinitely moved on. Scholarship has increasingly recognized the likes of Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holmes, Michael McClure, Ray Bremser, Andy Clausen, David Meltzer, Jack Micheline, Kathy Acker, Harold Norse, Ed Sanders. Women's Beat authorship looks to established presences like Di Prima, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, Ruth Weiss, Joyce Johnson, Janine...

This book begins a new and foundational discussion of maximalism by investigating how the treatment of detail in contemporary literature impels readers to navigate, tolerate, and enrich the cultural landscape of postindustrial America. It studies the maximalist novels of David Foster Wallace, Nicholson Baker, Thomas Pynchon, and others, considering how overly-detailed writing serves the institutional, emotional, and intellectual needs of contemporary readers and writers. The book argues that maximalist novels not only exceed perceived limits of style, subject matter, and scope, but strive...

A storyteller's craft can often be judged by how convincingly the narrative captures the identity and personality of its characters. In this book, the characters who take center stage are -strange- first-person narrators: they are fascinating because of how they are at odds with what the reader would wish or expect to hear--while remaining reassuringly familiar in voice, interactions, and conversations. Combining literary analysis with research in cognitive and social psychology, Marco Caracciolo focuses on readers' encounters with the -strange- narrators of ten contemporary novels,...

Comparing contemporary and modernist depictions of love to delineate critical continuities and innovations, Unmaking Love locates queerness in the novelistic strategies of Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Hanif Kureshi, Alan Hollinghurst, and Hari Kunzru. In their work, "queer love" becomes more than...