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Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Lately I've been possessed of a singularly unhappy idea: the greatest influence on American fiction for the last twenty years may have been Richard Nixon." What happens to American fiction in a time when villains are deprived of their villainy; when our consumer culture insists on happy endings? Did Richard Nixon start a trend of dysfunctional narration that is now rife throughout fiction? In Burning Down the House, Baxter delves into the social...
Author
Series
American century volume AC44
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
H. Woulk, E. Heminway, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Wolfe, John Stein beck, J.D. Salinger, J.P. Marquand, Saul Bellow, James Jones, W. Styron, J. Hersey, John Howard Griffin, Nelson Algren.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This book explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the end of the Cold War and globalization, 9/11, borderlands and border identities, race, and the legacy...