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1 online resource (xv, 140 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Journey to the end of the father: Battlefield of masculinity in the Mosquito Coast -- The American traveler's love and solitude: The atlas, or William T. Vollmann's Pragmatics of the double -- Nietzsche, crime fiction, and question of masculinity in Denis Johnson's Already dead: a California gothic -- Where the tide rises and ebbs: Power, becoming, and America in Steve Erickson's Rubicon Beach -- A man with a green memory: War, cinema, and freedom in Stephen Wright's Meditations in green -- 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 -- Writing from a different now: Question of ahistorical time in contemporary Los Angeles fiction. |
| Summary |
The idea of the ""outside"" as a space of freedom has always been central in the literature of the United States. This concept still remains active in contemporary American fiction; however, its function is being significantly changed. Outside, America argues that, among contemporary American novelists, a shift of focus to the temporal dimension is taking place. No longer a spatial movement, the quest for the outside now seeks to reach the idea of time as a force of difference, a la Deleuze, by which the current subjectivity is transformed. In other words, the concept is taking a ""temporal tu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Space and time in literature.
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Space and time in literature. |
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Personal space in literature.
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Personal space in literature. |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fujii, Hikaru. Outside, America. New York : Bloomsbury, 2013 9781441161871 (DLC) 2012044418 (OCoLC)822972332 |
| ISBN |
9781441122520 (electronic book) |
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1441122524 (electronic book) |
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9781441133007 |
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1441133003 |
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9781441161871 |
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1441161872 |
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9781628925364 |
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9781472543776 (online) |
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1472543777 |
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