John Irving and Cultural Mourning
Bouchra Belgaid
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Description for John Irving and Cultural Mourning
Hardback. John Irving and Cultural Mourning offers a chronological survey of his eleven novels, examining his prose via thematically focused chapters on postmodernism, the sixties, fatherhood, narcissism, mourning and finally self-redemption. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Alone among contemporary American novelists, John Irving seems to bridge the ever-present cultural divide between best-selling fiction and serious literary endeavour. His Irvingnesque style encapsulates the shifting patterns of American culture since the 1960s, expressing a mood of nostalgic melancholy or cultural mourning, which seems to go against ideas of the Postmodern. Indeed, Irving is one of the very few commercial novelists to be taught on university courses, this book is the first full-length study of his writing to situate him within the social, historical and political context of his times. It contends that postmodernism derives from the political failure ... Read more
Alone among contemporary American novelists, John Irving seems to bridge the ever-present cultural divide between best-selling fiction and serious literary endeavour. His Irvingnesque style encapsulates the shifting patterns of American culture since the 1960s, expressing a mood of nostalgic melancholy or cultural mourning, which seems to go against ideas of the Postmodern. Indeed, Irving is one of the very few commercial novelists to be taught on university courses, this book is the first full-length study of his writing to situate him within the social, historical and political context of his times. It contends that postmodernism derives from the political failure ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739137932
SKU
V9780739137932
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About Bouchra Belgaid
Bouchra Belgaid is assistant professor in the English Department at the University Mohamed I, Oujda.
Reviews for John Irving and Cultural Mourning
This thoughtful and elegant study helps to illuminate not only the contradictory melancholia and mourning at the heart of John Irving’s fiction, but also reaches out to trace its contours in terms of a wider American cultural history. The author moves between theoretical sophistication and close critical reading with accomplished ease, and her interpretations of postmodernism, the sixties, Freud, Lacan ... Read more