The Spaces of Violence

ISBN-13: 9780817359928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

James Giles

Spis treści

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Violence and Space
• 2. Discovering Fourthspace in Appalachia: Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God
• 3. Russell Banks’s Affliction: “All Those Solitary Dumb Angry Men”
• 4. Of Vultures, Eyeballs, and Parrots: Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle
• 5. The Myth of the Boatright Men: Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina
• 6. Playing for Death: Don DeLillo’s End Zone
• 7. Drifting through Urantia: Greyhound Space in Denis Johnson’s Angels
• 8. The Return of John Smith: Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer
• 9. “The Battle of Bob Hope” and “The Great Elephant Zap”: Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers
• 10. “I Hope You Didn’t Go into Raw Space without Me”: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho
• 11. Violence and Family Structures
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index