Essays in American Studies

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Автор: Сборник
Категория: Литературна критика
Издателство: Полис
Състояние: Нова книга
160 страници
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Първо издание: 2003
Народност: българска

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Essays in American Studies • Postmodern Perspectives Edited by Корнелия Славова/Корнелия Славова Has postmodernism already turned demode? The book Essays in American Studies: Postmodern Perspectives (the fifth in the American Studies Series) addresses this vexed question as well as many other points of contention among postmodern scholars such as the representation of history and reality, the construction of self and subjectivity, the „cannibalization” of texts and genres, the power of logos as a driving force in postmodern writing, as well as the role of queer theory and cybertextuality in providing new models for interpretation. The contributors come from different cultural backgrounds and they view American culture/ literature from both „inside” and „outside”, they speak in distinct critical voices, and have chosen different literary material for analysis (such as the works of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Kathy Acker, Paula Vogel, Tony Kushner, Linda Hogan, Henry James, and others). Yet all the essays deal with various forms of postmodern subversions - i.e. subversions both deriving from and targeted at postmodernism. The book will provide new insights and excitement for the readers of American literature in Bulgaria, as well as new perspectives upon the complexity of postmodern literary and cultural texts. CONTRIBUTORS: Allen Thiher Yonka Krasteva Madeleine Danova Steven G. Kellman Ralitsa Muharska Svetlana Mintcheva Dimitar Kambourov Корнелия Славова Kornelia Taneheva Susan E. Gunter Alexandra Glavanakova-Yaneva Contents Introduction - Корнелия Славова Allen Thiher Postmodern Fiction and History Yonka Krasteva The Representation of History and the History of Representation in Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit Madeleine Danova Problematizing History in Postmodern Native American Writing Steven G. Kellman Don DeLillo's Logogenetic Underworld Ralitsa Muharska Shifting Readabilities: a Hard Case of Masculinity(?) Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Svetlana Mintcheva Journeys of Wonder through Cities of Decay: Kathy Acker in Quest of a Myth to Live By Dimitar Kambourov The Tramp as an American Dream: Paul Auster's Postmodern Moralism Корнелия Славова The Re/turn of the Real: The Uses of Trauma in Tony Kushner's Angels in America Kornelia Tancheva The Cannibal Inside: Paula Vogel and the Loose Bolts of the American Theatre Susan E. Gunter Henry James and the Postmodern: A Queer Reading of "The Pupil" Alexandra Glavanakova-Yaneva Getting Lost in Hyperfiction