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Edición

[First edition].

Descripción

1 online resource (xxx, 259 pages).

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Colección

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Nota

Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Bibliografía

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contenido

Critical contexts. In search of the Great American political novel of the Vietnam war / Philip Beidler ; From the stricken community to the solitary night mind: the politics of time, space, and otherness in American fiction after 9/11 / Lucy Bond ; Wounded nations: politics and postcolonial literature / Chelva Kanaganayakam ; The retreat from politics in political fiction / Robert Boyers -- Critical readings. Joseph Conrad: the art of political fiction / Jakob Lothe ; "In the heart of a labyrinth": J.M. Coetzee and political emotions / Patrick Hayes ; Amitav Ghosh and the exclusivism of empire / John Thieme ; Surveillance and the "poetics of silence": late modernist imagism in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four / Patricia Rae ; "You can't live there": Weimar under the Palms and the German Democratic Republic in Christ Wolf's City of Angels or, The overcoat of Dr. Freud / Margaret Scanlan ; Doris Lessing: "Political in the most basic sense" / Alice Ridout ; Robert Stone's A Flag for Sunrise: a political novel / Mark Levene ; The demands and limits of "felt life" in Don De Lillo's Underworld / Paul McCormick ; "Who is the enemy?": waste and violence in Deborah Eisenberg's short fiction / Michael Trussler -- Resources.

Nota

Print version record.

Sumario

This book provides readers with a variety of new essays that focus on major events and issues that have occurred throughout this political time period. Essays range from Philip Beidler's, In Search of the Great American Political Novel of the Vietnam War to Robert Stone's, A Flag for Sunrise: A political Novel by Mark Levene.

Materia

Political fiction -- History and criticism.

Politics in literature.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.

REFERENCE / Writing Skills.

Political fiction.

Politics in literature.

Género/Forma

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Otro Autor

Levene, Mark,

Otro formato:

Print version: Political fiction. [First edition] 9781619254114 (OCoLC)892340518

ISBN

9781619254121 (electronic bk.)

1619254123 (electronic bk.)