Jonathan Lethem /
Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high profile in American literature. Examining all of Lethem's novels, as well as a number of his short fictions, essays and critical works, this study sho...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Series editor's foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Genre collisions and mutations
- 1. Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music
- 2. The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon
- 3. Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table
- 4. Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape
- 5. 'We learned to tell our story walking': Tourette's and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn
- 6. Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude
- 7. 'Hiding in plain sight': reality and secrecy in You Don't Love Me Yet and Chronic City
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.