A critical introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Note on the text -- Part One: Contexts...
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A critical introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Note on the text -- Part One: Contexts -- Chapter One: 'Who Are We?': Social and Cultural Contexts of the Contemporary American Novel -- Introduction -- Chapter Two: 'Why Bother?': Literary and Intellectual Contexts of the Contemporary American Novel -- Review, Reading and Research -- Part Two: Texts -- Chapter Three: Overpowering Consumerism: American Psycho (1991) and Fight Club (1996) -- American Psycho (1991) and Fight Club (1996) -- American Psycho: Supermarket de Sade -- Shadow boxing in Fight Club -- 'This Is Not An Exit'? -- Chapter Four: Between Black and White: Beloved (1987) and The Human Stain (2000) -- Beloved (1987) and The Human Stain (2000) -- Chapter Five: The Contemporary Americas Novel: Blood Meridian (1985), Almanac of the Dead (1991), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) -- Blood Meridian (1985), Almanac of the Dead (1991), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) -- Chapter Six: 'It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)'?: Globalization and its Discontents in Jasmine (1989) and Cosmopolis (2003) -- Globalization and its Discontents in Jasmine (1989) and Cosmopolis (2003) -- Review, Reading and Research -- Part Three: Wider Contexts -- Chapter Seven: Afterlives and Adaptations: The Contemporary American Novel on Film, Video and the Internet -- The Contemporary American Novel on Film, Video and the internet -- Chapter Eight: Critical Contexts: Approaches to the Contemporary American Novel -- Approaches to the Contemporary American Novel -- Review, Reading and Research -- Additional Works Cited -- Index.
