The Quiet Contemporary American Novel

Rachel Sykes

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to the s... Lees meer

Making Home

Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom, Maria Holmgren Troy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors -- . Lees meer

The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction

Michael Kalisch

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction - from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu - has redi... Lees meer

Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship

Zalfa Feghali

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indi... Lees meer

Paul Auster

Mark Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This study explores all of Auster's artistic output - both published and unpublished - for the first time, and considers, in considerable depth, his m... Lees meer

The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction

Michael Kalisch

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship an... Lees meer

Cormac McCarthy

Lydia R Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's ... Lees meer

Douglas Coupland

Andrew Tate

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland’s career, from Gen... Lees meer

Philip Roth

David Brauner

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and... Lees meer

The Quiet Contemporary American Novel

Rachel Sykes

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to the s... Lees meer

Thomas Pynchon

Simon Malpas, Andrew Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- . Lees meer

Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship

Zalfa Feghali

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework to theorise ho... Lees meer

Passing into the present

Sinead Moynihan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender p... Lees meer

Cormac McCarthy

Lydia R Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonstrat... Lees meer

Marilynne Robinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Best known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public ... Lees meer

Sara Paretsky

Cynthia Hamilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This is the first book-length study of Sara Paretsky’s detective fiction. Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transf... Lees meer

Mark Z. Danielewski

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This is the first book-length study of Mark Z. Danielewski, an American novelist who is rapidly establishing himself as a leading figure in the landsc... Lees meer