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A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Erschienen am 23.10.2009, Auflage: 1/2009
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ISBN/EAN: 9781405146913
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 608 S.
Einband: gebundenes Buch

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InhaltsangabeNotes on Contributors Introduction Part I: Genres, Traditions and Subject Areas Part II: Selected Writers Index

Autorenportrait

David Seed is Professor in the School of English at Liverpool University. He has published books on Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, Science Fiction and the Cold War. He edits the Science Fiction series of Liverpool University Press and serves as a consulting editor for Science Fiction Studies. He is the editor of our Companion to Science Fiction.

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Notes on Contributors Introduction Genres, Traditions and Subject Areas 1. American Modernism: Susan Hegeman, University of Florida 2. The American City Novel: James R. Giles, Northern Illionois University 3. The American Western: Neil Campbell, U of Derby 4. Postmodernist Fiction: Hans Bertens, University of Utrecht 5. Modern Gothic: Marilyn Michaud, Stirling University 6. The American Short Story: Mark Whalan, Exeter University 7. Southern Fiction: Sharon Monteith, Nottingham University 8. Jewish-American Writing: David Brauner, Reading University 9. Modern African American Fiction: A. Robert Lee, Nihon University 10. American Detective Fiction: Cindy Hamilton Manchester Metropolitan University 11. Hard-boiled/Noir Fiction: Lee Horsley, University of Lancaster 12. Chicano Fiction: Francisco A. Lomeli, University of California Santa Barbara 13. Black Humour Fiction: David Seed, Liverpool University 14. Fiction on the Vietnam War: Philip Melling, Swansea University and Subarno Chattarji, Swansea University 15. The Rediscovery of the Native American: Joy Porter, University of Wales Swansea 16. Trash Fiction: Stacey Olster, SUNY Stonybrook Selected Writers 17. Edith Wharton: Pamela Knights, Durham University 18. Willa Cather: Guy Reynolds, University of Nebraska 19. Gertrude Stein: Ulla Haselstein, Free University of Berlin 20. Ernest Hemingway: Peter Messent, Nottingham University 21. John Dos Passos: Andrew Hook, University of Glasgow and David Seed. 22. Thomas Wolfe: Anne R. Zahlan, Eastern Illinois University 23. F. Scott Fitzgerald: William Blazek, Liverpool Hope University 24. Zora Neale Hurston: Lovalerie King, Penn State University 25. Theodore Dreiser: Clare Eby, University of Connecticut 26. William Faulkner: Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska-Kearney 27. H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]: Rachel Connor 28. John Steinbeck: Brian Railsback, Western Carolina University 29. Raymond Chandler: Sean McCann, Wesleyan University 30. Richard Wright: Tara T. Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 31. Ralph Ellison: Rachel Farebrother, Swansea University 32. James Baldwin: Quentin Miller, Suffolk University 33. Vladimir Nabokov: Barbara Wyllie, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, London University 34. Norman Mailer: Michael K. Glenday, Open University 35. William Burroughs: Davis Schneiderman, Lake Forest College, Chicago 36. Saul Bellow: Michael Austin, Newman University 37. Gore Vidal: Heather Neilson, University of New South Wales 38. Joseph Heller: David M. Craig, Clarkson University 39. Kurt Vonnegut: Jerome Klinkowitz, U of Northern Iowa 40. Thomas Pynchon: Ian D. Copestake, U of Frankfurt 41. Ishmael Reed: Darryl Dickson-Carr, Southern Methodist University 42. Joyce Carol Oates: Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Bath Spa University 43. Philip Roth: Timothy Parrish, Florida State University 44. John Updike: Brian Keener, College of Technology CUNY 45. Maxine Hong Kingston: Helena Grice, University of Wales Aberystwyth 46. Toni Morrison: Jenny Terry, Durham University 47. Alice Walker: Maria Lauret, University of Sussex 48. Don DeLillo: Mark Osteen, Loyola College. 49. Gerald Vizenor: A. Robert Lee, University of Nihon 50. Brett Easton Ellis: James Annesley, Newcastle University 51. Amy Tan: Heidi Macpherson, De Montfort University 52. Paul Auster: Mark Brown, University of Northampton 53. Bharati Mukherjee: Judie Newman, U of Nottingham Index