Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Crossings
1st Edition
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By Nicholas Monk
September 20, 2013
This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different "angle" on the work, but setting him ...
Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives
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By Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint
April 20, 2012
In this collection of essays, contributors consider the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never ...
Reading Chuck Palahniuk: American Monsters and Literary Mayhem
1st Edition
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By Cynthia Kuhn, Lance Rubin
April 20, 2012
Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk's innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and the new ...
Literature after 9/11
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By Ann Keniston, Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
June 07, 2010
Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and ...