The story of "me" : contemporary American autofiction
Marjorie Worthington
Bok Engelsk 2018
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| Utgitt | University of Nebraska Press , 2018
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| Omfang | x, 217 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: Autofiction in an American Context -- 1. Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness: Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Powers -- 2. Rage Against the Dying of the Author: Philip Roth, Arthur Phillips, Ruth Ozeki, Salvador Plascencia, and Percival Everett -- 3. The New Journalism as the New Fiction, The New Subjectivity as The New Objectivity: Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Mark Leyner, and Bret Easton Ellis -- 4. Trauma Autofiction, Dissociation, and the Authenticity of "Real" Experience: Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Federman, Tim O'Brien and Jonathan Safran Foer -- 5. Memoir vs. Autofiction as The Story of Me vs. The Story of "Me": Philip Roth, Richard Powers, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ron Currie Jr. -- Coda -- Appendix: American Autofictions. - "The Story of "Me" shows that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness" --
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| Geografisk emneord | USA : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01695
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| Dewey | |
| ISBN | 978-1-4962-0757-9
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