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History and Refusal
Stephen N. Docarmo
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Description for History and Refusal
Hardback. This book examines the ways six contemporary American novels (October Light; American Psycho; Vineland; Et Tu, Babe; In Country; and White Noise) formulate critiques of a late-capitalist consumer culture proclaimed to be all but unassailable. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
This book examines the ways six remarkably disparate novels formulate critiques of a late-capitalist consumer culture proclaimed in recent years to be all but unassailable. Beginning with a consideration of John Gardner’s October Light and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho—two novels demonstrating the poverty of traditional (or essentialist) right- and left-wing attacks on mass culture—the volume later turns its attention to the more postmodernist and poststructuralist critiques of Thomas Pynchon (Vineland), Mark Leyner (Et Tu, Babe), Bobbie Ann Mason (In Country) and Don DeLillo (White Noise), connecting these novelists’ ideas to those of such cultural theorists as Fredric Jameson, Jean ... Read more
This book examines the ways six remarkably disparate novels formulate critiques of a late-capitalist consumer culture proclaimed in recent years to be all but unassailable. Beginning with a consideration of John Gardner’s October Light and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho—two novels demonstrating the poverty of traditional (or essentialist) right- and left-wing attacks on mass culture—the volume later turns its attention to the more postmodernist and poststructuralist critiques of Thomas Pynchon (Vineland), Mark Leyner (Et Tu, Babe), Bobbie Ann Mason (In Country) and Don DeLillo (White Noise), connecting these novelists’ ideas to those of such cultural theorists as Fredric Jameson, Jean ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611460544
SKU
V9781611460544
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About Stephen N. Docarmo
Stephen N. DoCarmo teaches literature and composition at Bucks County Community College.
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