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Understanding Jonathan Lethem /

"Understanding Jonathan Lethem is a study of the novels, short fiction, and nonfiction on a wide range of subjects in the arts by American novelist Jonathan Lethem, who is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Motherless Brooklyn, a MacArthur Foundation "g...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luter, Matthew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:Understanding contemporary American literature.
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505 0 |a Cover -- UNDERSTANDING JONATHAN LETHEM -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Understanding Jonathan Lethem -- Chapter 2 Motherless Brooklyn Self-Aware Influence and Stylized Genre -- Chapter 3 The Fortress of Solitude Experience and Interpretation -- Chapter 4 Chronic City: Ecstatic Appreciation and Its Discontents -- Chapter 5 Recent Lethem: The Critic and the Realist -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR. 
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