Outside, America
Subtitle: the temporal turn in contemporary American fiction
By: Hikaru Fujii
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781441161871; 9781441122520; 9781441133007
Subjects: Identity (Psychology) in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Personal space in literature; Space and time in literature; History and criticism; American fiction; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-138) and index.
Table of contents: title: Journey to the end of the father: Battlefield of masculinity in the Mosquito Coast; title: The American traveler's love and solitude: The atlas, or William T. Vollmann's Pragmatics of the double; title: Nietzsche, crime fiction, and question of masculinity in Denis Johnson's Already dead: a California gothic; title: Where the tide rises and ebbs: Power, becoming, and America in Steve Erickson's Rubicon Beach; title: A man with a green memory: War, cinema, and freedom in Stephen Wright's Meditations in green; title: Time and again: The outside and the narrative pragmatics in The body artist WWDD (What Would Disney Do)?: Cinematic field and narrative act in Richard Powers's Prisoner's dilemma; title: Writing from a different now: Question of ahistorical time in contemporary Los Angeles fiction.