The Contemporary American Novel in Context

ISBN: 9780826419699 出版年：2011 页码：194 Andrew Dix Brian Jarvis Paul Jenner Bloomsbury Publishing

Series Editors' Preface Part 1 Contexts 1. 'Who Are We?': social and cultural contexts of the contemporary American novel 2. 'Why Bother?': literary and intellectual contexts of the contemporary American novel Review, reading and research Part 2 Texts 3. Consuming Fictions: American Psycho (1991), Fight Club (1996) 4. Between Black and White: Beloved (1987), The Human Stain (2000) 5. The Contemporary Americas Novel: Blood Meridian (1985), Almanac of the Dead (1991), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) 6. Global Narratives: Underworld (1997), Pattern Recognition (2003) Review, reading and research Part 3 Wider Contexts 7. Afterlives and adaptations: the contemporary American novel on film, video and the web 8. Critical contexts: approaches to the contemporary American novel Review, reading and research Bibliography and sources Index.