Bouchra Belgaid

John Irving and Cultural Mourning

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

John Irving and Cultural Mourning offers a chronological survey of his eleven novels, examining his prose via thematically focused chapters on postmodernism, the sixties, fatherhood, narcissism, mourning and finally self-redemption.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780739137932
• ISBN-10: 073913793X
• Artikelnr.: 32212148

Autorenporträt

By Bouchra Belgaid

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Postmodernism or ''the
literature of exhaustion'' Chapter 3 Chapter 2: The Sixties: Years of
throwing off Inhibitions Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Irving's Family Romances
Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Irving and Narcissism Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Mourning
and Grief in Irving's Fiction Chapter 7 Epilogue: The Fourth Hand and
groping toward self-redemption