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Throughout this study Engebretson makes the argument for Marilynne Robinson as an essential, deeply unfashionable, visionary presence within today's literary scene.

Robinson, Marilynne --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Robinson, Marilynne --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views.

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Violence in literature --- Nightmares in literature --- Morrison, Toni --- Jones, Gayl --- Robinson, Marilynne --- Ozick, Cynthia --- Silko, Leslie Marmon

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This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter—that is, without ghost writing.

Philosophy --- Linguistics --- Fiction --- American literature --- Literature --- Amerindian literature --- geletterdheid --- fantasy --- filosofie --- literatuur --- Amerikaanse cultuur --- DeLillo, Don --- Morrison, Toni --- Auster, Paul --- Roth, Philip --- Robinson, Marilynne --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- United States of America

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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the coming-of-age novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood.

Bildungsroman [American ] --- History and criticism --- American fiction --- 20th century --- Banks, Russell --- Udall, Brady --- Wolff, Geoffrey --- Jen, Gish --- Eugenides, Jeffrey --- Moody, Rick --- Bradfield, Scott --- Richard, Mark --- Robinson, Marilynne --- Humphreys, Josephine --- Allison, Dorothy --- Wurtzel, Elizabeth --- Bildungsromans, American --- History and criticism. --- American literature --- 21st century --- DeLillo, Don --- Auster, Paul --- Ellis, Bret Easton --- Smiley, Jane --- Shields, Carol --- Roth, Philip --- Powers, Richard --- Frazier, Charles --- McCarthy, Cormac