Binding: Paperback
Description: Contemporary American Fiction provides an introduction to American fiction since 1970. Offering substantial and detailed interpretations of more than thirty texts by thirty different writers Millard combines them in an innovative critical structure designed to promote debates on cultural politics and aesthetic value. The book is the first of its kind to offer a wide - ranging survey of recent developments in the fiction of the United States. Recent novels by established writers such as John Updike and Philip Roth are analysed alongside the fiction of younger writers such as Gish Jen and Sherman Alexie. The books innovative structure encourages new ways of thinking about how American writers might be configured in relation to each other while providing an analysis of how contemporary fiction has responded to changes in central areas of American life such as the family the media technology and consumerism. Contemporary American Fiction is a substantial critical introduction to some of the most exciting fiction of the last thirty years an eclectic and thorough advertisement for the extraordinary vitality of American fiction at the end of the twentieth century. This is an excellent introduction to the subject for undergraduate students of modern American literature.
Title: Contemporary American Fiction An Introduction To American Fiction Since 1970
Author(s): Millard Kenneth (Lecturer In English Literature Lecturer In English Literature University Of Edinburgh)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198711780
Pages: 340 Pages
Publication Date: 11/23/2000
Category: Cultural Studies