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After Postmodernism
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Author : Christopher K Coffman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2023-09-25
After Postmodernism written by Christopher K Coffman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-25 with categories.
This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporaryAmerican literature's scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary.
Coming Of Age In Contemporary American Fiction
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Author : Kenneth Millard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Coming Of Age In Contemporary American Fiction written by Kenneth Millard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with American fiction categories.
This text explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel. It considers a variety of different American cultures (in terms of race, class and gender) as well as a range of contemporary coming-of-age novels.
The Bonfire Of The Vanities
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Author : Tom Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-06-21
The Bonfire Of The Vanities written by Tom Wolfe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-21 with Fiction categories.
An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose. Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. Exuberant, scandalous and exceptionally discerning, The Bonfire of the Vanities was Tom Wolfe's first venture into fiction and cemented his reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age. 'The air of New York crackles with an energy that causes the adrenalin to pump... The feeling is perfectly reproduced in Wolfe's novel... Electric' Sunday Times 'The quintessential novel of The Eighties' The Guardian
Black Professional Women In Recent American Fiction
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Author : Carmen Rose Marshall
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2004
Black Professional Women In Recent American Fiction written by Carmen Rose Marshall and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
In recent years many black professional women have triumphed against great odds in the workplace. Despite this success, few novels celebrate their accomplishments. Identifying the extent to which contemporary novels satisfy the "readerly desires" of black middle-class women readers, this book investigates what the readership prefers and why.
Black Professional Women In Recent American Fiction
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Author : Carmen Rose Marshall
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-24
Black Professional Women In Recent American Fiction written by Carmen Rose Marshall and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The last three decades of the 20th century have marked the triumph of many black professional women against great odds in the workplace. Despite their success, few novels celebrate their accomplishments. Black middle-class professional women want to see themselves realistically portrayed by protagonists who work to achieve significant productivity and visibility in their careers, desire stability in their personal lives, aspire to accrue wealth, and live elegantly though not consumptively. The author contends that most recent American realistic fiction fails to represent black professional women protagonists performing their work effectively in the workplace. Identifying the extent to which contemporary novels satisfy the "readerly desires" of black middle-class women readers, this book investigates why the readership wants the texts, as well as what they prefer in the books they buy. It also examines the technical and cultural factors that contribute to the lack of books with self-empowered black professional female protagonists, and considers The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara and Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan, two novels that function as significant markers in the development of contemporary black women writers' texts.
Booth
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Author : Karen Joy Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-02-07
Booth written by Karen Joy Fowler and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with Fiction categories.
Best Book of the Year Real Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia Living Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy. Booth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make, and break, a family.
Stoner
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Author : John Williams
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-11-30
Stoner written by John Williams and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-30 with Fiction categories.
This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. 'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, Time William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life. 'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan 'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby INTRODUCED BY JOHN McGAHERN
We Two Alone
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Author : Jack Wang
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-06-08
We Two Alone written by Jack Wang and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Fiction categories.
Praised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years. Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life, pretending to be a girl to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple is caught when Shanghai succumbs to violence during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A family sttempts to buy a home in South Africa in the early years of apartheid. An actor in New York struggles to keep his career alive while yearning to reconcile with his estranged wife. From the vulnerable and disenfranchised to the educated and privileged, the characters in this extraordinary collection embody the diversity of the Chinese diaspora past and present. In these deeply affecting stories, Jack Wang subverts expectations as he captures the hope, pain, and sacrifices of the millions who journey into the unknown to create better lives, and explores the shifting boundaries of morality, the intimacies and failings of love, and the choices circumstances force us to make.
After The End Of History
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Author : Samuel Cohen
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2009-10-01
After The End Of History written by Samuel Cohen and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Roth's American Pastoral, Morrison's Paradise, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted, Eugenides's Middlesex, Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, and DeLillo's Underworld. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is ironically keen on denying that connection. Exploring the ways ideas about paradise and pastoral, difference and exclusion, innocence and righteousness, triumph and trauma deform the stories Americans tell themselves about their nation’s past, After the End of History challenges us to reconsider these works in a new light, offering fresh, insightful readings of what are destined to be classic works of literature. At the same time, Cohen enters into the theoretical discussion about postmodern historical understanding. Throwing his hat in the ring with force and style, he confronts not only Francis Fukuyama’s triumphalist response to the fall of the Soviet Union but also the other literary and political “end of history” claims put forth by such theorists as Fredric Jameson and Walter Benn Michaels. In a straightforward, affecting style, After the End of History offers us a new vision for the capabilities and confines of contemporary fiction.
Blood Meridian
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Author : Cormac McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-08-11
Blood Meridian written by Cormac McCarthy and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-11 with Fiction categories.
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.