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Titel: John Irving and Cultural Mourning
Zustand: Neu
EAN: 9780739137932
ISBN: 9780739137932
Verlag: Lexington Books
Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.12.2010
Höhe: 245mm
Länge: 162mm
Breite: 20mm
Gewicht: 476g
Autor: Bouchra Belgaid
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 073913793X
Description: Alone among contemporary American novelists, John Irving seems to bridge the ever-present cultural divide between best-selling fiction and serious literary endeavour. His Irvingnesque style encapsulates the shifting patterns of American culture since the 1960s, expressing a mood of nostalgic melancholy or cultural mourning, which seems to go against ideas of the Postmodern. Indeed, Irving is one of the very few commercial novelists to be taught on university courses, this book is the first full-length study of his writing to situate him within the social, historical and political context of his times. It contends that postmodernism derives from the political failure of the sixties and a narcissistic obsession with the composition of the self. This narcissism is at the same time what Freud labels as cultural melancholia, the mourning of a lost ideal self-image. Just as nostalgia appears as narcissistic history, this lost self-image conjures up the figure of the Dead Father and the Father's Law, a figure which Irving's prose obsessively pursues.
Herstellungsland und -region: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Title Format: Gebundene Ausgabe

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