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American fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Point of view (Literature) --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- History and criticism --- History --- Auster, Paul, --- Doctorow, E. L., --- Eugenides, Jeffrey. --- Roth, Philip.

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This is an accessible, lucid and incisive study that will prove indispensable to students and scholars of contemporary American fiction. Featuring a wide range of authors - from canonical figures such as Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Annie Proulx, to increasingly influential writers such as Jeffrey Eugenides, Gish Jen and Richard Powers - the book combines detailed readings of key texts with informative discussions of their historical, social and cultural contexts. There are chapters focusing on formal characteristics (the use of irony and paradox in novels by Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Bret Easton Ellis, and the generic properties of the texts and films of Cold Mountain, Brokeback Mountain and No Country for Old Men) and on thematic concerns (the representation of gender and sexuality in novels by Jane Smiley, Carol Shields and Jeffrey Eugenides, and of ethnicity, race and hybridity in fiction by Gish Jen, Philip Roth and Richard Powers). Running through all these chapters is an interrogation of all three elements making up the phrase 'contemporary American fiction'.Key Features Identifies some of the main trends in contemporary American fiction and situates them in historical and cultural contexts Discusses a representative range of recent fiction, providing a sense of the rich diversity of the field and of its key themes and modes of writing Introduces students to a variety of critical approaches to, and debates concerning, contemporary American fiction Encourages reflection on the nature of national, gender, ethnic and generic identities

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

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Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.

Fiction --- Fiction --- Fiction --- Literature --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Hulme, Keri. --- Wilder, Thornton, --- Lurie, Alison. --- Blume, Judy. --- Robinson, Marilynne. --- Faulkner, William, --- Lewis, C. S. --- Eugenides, Jeffrey. --- Kingsolver, Barbara. --- Hesse, Hermann, --- Updike, John. --- Oates, Joyce Carol,

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In deze nieuwe bundeling van verhalen over kunst, lezen en leven schrijft Zwagerman met het elan en de gedrevenheid die inmiddels zijn handelsmerk zijn geworden. Uitgangspunt voor Kennis is geluk is zijn tomeloze nieuwsgierigheid. Waarom spelen knuckleheads altijd een hoofdrol in de films van de Coen Brothers? Hoeveel soorten stilte bestaan er precies? Waarom maakt een kunstenaar een portret van Adolf Hitler als broze, breekbare man? Wie lijden er meer aan het leven in de serie Mad Men, de mannen of de vrouwen? Wat is het geheim van het licht in de schilderijen van Vermeer? Waarom huilen mensen sneller bij het luisteren naar muziek dan bij het bekijken van een kunstwerk? Zwagerman slaagt erin zijn lezers gelukkig te maken door zijn kennis niet te etaleren of droogjes over te brengen, maar doordat hij allerlei informatie onnadrukkelijk verbindt met zijn persoonlijke observaties, indrukken en herinneringen. Kennis is geluk.

Aesthetics of art --- Dutch literature --- essays --- aesthetics --- philosophy of art --- esthetica --- kunst --- literatuur --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Vermeer Johannes --- Dalí Salvador --- van Gogh Vincent --- Picasso Pablo --- Stein Gertrude --- Stein Leo --- Stein Michael --- Ensor James --- Twombly Cy --- Sherman Cindy --- Corbijn Anton --- Schnabel Julian --- Sluijters Jan --- Tuymans Luc --- Currin John --- van Warmerdam Marijke --- Mad men --- Coen Ethan --- Coen Joel --- Eugenides Jeffrey --- Updike John --- Campert Remco --- Hitchens Christopher --- Komrij Gerrit --- Bowie David --- Costello Elvis --- Oates Joyce Carol --- Didion Joan --- van der Heijden A.F.Th --- Leibovitz Annie --- 7.039 --- 7.01 --- Kunstbeschouwing ; Joost Zwagerman over beeldende kunst --- Zwagerman, Joost --- Kunst- en cultuurtheorie --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Literatuur, muziek en beeldende kunst/grafiek (kennisdomein)