Disenfranchised from America
Subtitle: reinventing language and love in Nabokov and Pynchon
By: Melissa Lam
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9780761846192
Subjects: American fiction; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; Alienation (Rhetoric); History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-85) and index.
Table of contents: title: Section I: Lolita. Trickery and linguistic device; title: Freud and American suburbia; title: Defamiliarization and landscape; title: The underworld : America as movie; title: The resuscitation of the romance genre; title: Defamiliarization and language; title: section II: The crying lot of 49. The inside outsider : defamiliarization and the narrator; title: Illegitimacy and disruptive imagination; title: W.A.S.T.E. everywhere : Pynchon at the movies; title: 'The direct apocalyptic word' : defamiliarization and Bakhtin; title: Final remarks.