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  1. Was wir euch erzählen
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  3. Was wir euch erzählen
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  4. The unsettled state of America
    contemporary narratives of home and mobility in times of crisis
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783487161426; 3487161427
    Other identifier:
    9783487161426
    Series: Open Publishing in the Humanities
    Subjects: Roman; Zuhause <Motiv>; Mobilität <Motiv>; Krise <Motiv>
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Paperback / softback; American novelists; Cormac McCarthy; Dave Eggers; Emily St. John Mandel; home; mobility; Paul Auster; Richard Ford; storytelling; (VLB-WN)1564: Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: XIV, 224 Seiten, 21 cm, 315 g
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    Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2020

  5. Vater-Sohn-Beziehungen in zeitgenössischer amerikanischer Literatur
    Werke von Richard Russo, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford und John Updike
  6. <<The>> Unsettled State of America
    Contemporary Narratives of Home and Mobility in Times of Crisis
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Olms, Hildesheim

    This book explores how contemporary American novelists express the malaise and sense of contingency felt in the crisis-ridden historical present through two distinct tropes in their storytelling:home and mobility.As the American nation has been... more

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    This book explores how contemporary American novelists express the malaise and sense of contingency felt in the crisis-ridden historical present through two distinct tropes in their storytelling:home and mobility.As the American nation has been confronted with an unprecedented accumulation of crises in the years since 9/11, the interrelated concepts of home and mobility have entered plots in imaginative and unique ways. This study focuses on recent novels by Paul Auster (Sunset Park), Cormac McCarthy (The Road), Dave Eggers (A Hologram for the King), Richard Ford (The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank with You) and Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven). Crises can happen at any moment, without much warning— as the recent shock of the pandemic has made all too clear—and the works of fiction by these five authors all explore this underlying sense of threat and uncertainty through the double prism of home and mobility. The book includes excerpts from exclusive interviews with four of these authors

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783487161426
    Other identifier:
    9783487161426
    Edition: First Published ; 2022
    Series: Open Publishing in the Humanities
    Subjects: American novelists; Cormac McCarthy; Dave Eggers; Emily St. John Mandel; home; mobility; Paul Auster; Richard Ford; storytelling
    Other subjects: Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen; Amerikanische Literatur; Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: XIV, 224 Seiten, 315 grams
  7. "Location Is Everything"
    the concept of space in John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy and Richard Ford's Bascombe Trilogy
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Saarbrücken

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    Contributor: Fellner, Astrid (Akademischer Betreuer)
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Updike, John ; Ford, Richard ; Raum ; Literatur
    Other subjects: Array; Array
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    Saarbrücken, Universität des Saarlandes, Diss., 2014

  8. Vater-Sohn-Beziehungen in zeitgenössischer amerikanischer Literatur
    Werke von Richard Russo, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford und John Updike