Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction
Author: Stuart J. Taylor
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 3031486714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stuart J. Taylor
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 3031486714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paula Geyh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1107103444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.
Author: Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 1607
ISBN-13: 1119431719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as a vision of what may come. It perfectly balances analysis, summary, and critique for an illuminating treatment of the subject matter. This collection also includes: An exciting mix of established and emerging contributors from around the world discussing central and cutting-edge topics in American fiction studies Focused, critical explorations of authors and subjects of critical importance to American fiction Topics that reflect the energies and tendencies of contemporary American fiction from the forty years between 1980 and 2020 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students of American literature, English, creative writing, and fiction studies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars seeking an authoritative array of contributions on both established and newer authors of contemporary fiction.
Author: Nina Engelhardt
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781474416252
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bran Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-10-08
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1139483110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the 'pioneers', Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commonplace assumptions about literature.
Author: Casey Michael Henry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-02-07
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1350064971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodernism and its aftermath, from William Gaddis's J R and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho through to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Through these histories, the book charts the ways in which print-based postmodern writing at first resisted new mass media forms and ultimately came to respond to them.
Author: W. Lawrence Hogue
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0252033833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Redefining postmodern American literature to include the voices of women and nonwhite writers
Author: John Cusatis
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1438134053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers American literature during the postwar period.
Author: Robert Tubbs
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-12-30
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 3030554783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics. These connections range from mathematics and poetic meter to mathematics and modernism to mathematics as literature. Some chapters focus on a single author, such as mathematics and Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, or Charles Dickens, while others consider a mathematical topic common to two or more authors, such as squaring the circle, chaos theory, Newton’s calculus, or stochastic processes. With appeal for scholars and students in literature, mathematics, cultural history, and history of mathematics, this important volume aims to introduce the range, fertility, and complexity of the connections between mathematics, literature, and literary theory. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via [link.springer.com|http://link.springer.com/].
Author: Kirk Curnutt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-22
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1108551599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned to the era to explore the legacy of Watergate, stagflation, and Saturday Night Fever, uncovering the unique confluence of political and economic phenomena that make the period such a baffling time. Literary historians have never shown much interest in the era, however - a remarkable omission considering writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Marilyn French, Adrienne Rich, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Alice Walker, and Octavia E. Butler were active. Over the course of twenty-one essays, contributors explore a range of controversial themes these writers tackled, from 1960s' nostalgia to feminism and the redefinition of masculinity to sexual liberation and rock 'n' roll. Other essays address New Journalism, the rise of blockbuster culture, memoir and self-help, and crime fiction - all demonstrating that the Me Decade was nothing short of mesmerizing.