Sascha Pöhlmann

Vote with a Bullet

Assassination in American Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Conceptualizes the genre of American assassination fiction as a dramatization of the tension between individualism and mass society in US culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781640141131
• ISBN-10: 1640141138
• Artikelnr.: 61219626

Autorenporträt

Sascha Pöhlmann

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Individual and Society 1. Henry James
The Princess Casamassima (1886) 2. Jack London
The Assassination Bureau
Ltd. (1910/63) 3. Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men (1946) 4. Philip K. Dick
Solar Lottery (1955) 5. Richard Condon
The Manchurian Candidate (1959) 6. Loren Singer
The Parallax View (1970) 7. Don DeLillo
Libra (1988) 8. Stephen King
The Dead Zone (1979) 9. Stephen King
11/22/63 (2011) 10. Mark Costello
Big If (2002) 11. Nicholson Baker
Checkpoint (2004) 12. Noah Hawley
The Good Father (2012) Conclusion Works Cited Index