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Outside, America : the temporal turn in contemporary American fiction /
The idea of the ""outside"" as a space of freedom has always been central in the literature of the United States. This concept still remains active in contemporary American fiction; however, its function is being significantly changed. Outside, America argues that, among contempo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The idea of the ""outside"" as a space of freedom has always been central in the literature of the United States. This concept still remains active in contemporary American fiction; however, its function is being significantly changed. Outside, America argues that, among contemporary American novelists, a shift of focus to the temporal dimension is taking place. No longer a spatial movement, the quest for the outside now seeks to reach the idea of time as a force of difference, a la Deleuze, by which the current subjectivity is transformed. In other words, the concept is taking a ""temporal tu. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 140 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441122520 1441122524 9781441133007 1441133003 9781472543776 1472543777 |