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Understanding Richard Powers (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Joseph Dewey
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Description for Understanding Richard Powers (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
paperback. Presents an introduction to Richard Powers - one of the important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. This title places Powers in context as a major voice in the first generation born entirely within the era of television and the computer. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
This is a critical survey of works by a writer torn between Emersonian engagement and Dickinsonesque withdrawal.""Understanding Richard Powers"" presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey contends that while Powers' novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson - the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination.Through an overview ... Read more
This is a critical survey of works by a writer torn between Emersonian engagement and Dickinsonesque withdrawal.""Understanding Richard Powers"" presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey contends that while Powers' novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson - the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination.Through an overview ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570037849
SKU
V9781570037849
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About Joseph Dewey
An associate professor of American literature at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Joseph Dewey is the author of Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo, Novels from Reagan's America: A New Realism, and In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age.
Reviews for Understanding Richard Powers (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Dewey's book is a good place to start for readers who are interested in Powers, and it will have a positive effect on further critical studies. - Choice