Professor John Limon (Wil ohn Hawley Roberts Professor of Englishd

Escape, Escapism, Escapology

American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century

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Produktbeschreibung

"In a major contribution to American studies, John Limon identifies and explores the central theme of American fiction of the first two decades of the 21st century: escapism"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781501391101
• ISBN-10: 1501391100
• Artikelnr.: 63240961

Autorenporträt

John Limon is John Hawley Roberts Professor of English at Williams College, USA. He is the author of The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science (1990), Writing After War (1994), Stand-Up Comedy in Theory (2000), and Death's Following (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Escape, Escapism, Escapology 1. Notes from Neverland
2. I Flit, I Float, I Fleetly Flee, I Fly [on The Sound of Music] Part II:
Family Likenesses 3. The Escapist [on Michael Chabon] 4. Mellon [on Junot
Diaz] 5. Bath and Bathos [on Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer] 6. The
Beauty! The Horror! [on Emma Donoghue] 7. Et in Nobis Arcadia [on Lauren
Groff] 8. The Ethics of Immortality [on Colson Whitehead] 9. The Songs of
Murdered Souls [On Jesmyn Ward and George Saunders] Part III: Foreign
Correspondents 10. Choice and the Chosen [on David Grossman] 11.
Categorical Denial [on Arundhati Roy] Part IV: Prequel 12. The Tunnel Out
[on William H. Gass] Acknowledgments References Index