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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Peacock, James, 1970- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.