Heath A. Diehl

Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985-2015

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781785276132
• ISBN-10: 1785276131
• Artikelnr.: 60774341

Autorenporträt

Heath A. Diehl is Teaching Professor in the Department of English and Honors College at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Wasted: Performing Addiction in America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Bearing Witness: Leaving Las Vegas (1990)
2. Betraying: Dope (2006)
3. Gaslighting: The Girl on the Train (2015)
4. Transgressing: Less Than Zero (1985)
5. Disorienting: The Orange Eats Creeps (2010)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.