Violence in the contemporary American novel : an end to innocence /
| Основен автор: | Giles, James Richard, 1937- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Columbia SC :
University of South Carolina Press,
c2000.
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Съдържание:
- Preface
- Introduction: Innocence dying younger
- Dedalus in the Dood Kamer: William Kennedy's Quinn's book
- The context of American innocence: Caleb Carr's The alienist
- The Ducky Boys and the urban punk killing machine: Richard Price's The wanderers
- A postmodern children's crusade: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire
- Nature despoiled and artificial: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street
- Violence and the immanence of the "thing unknown": Cormac McCarthy's Suttree
- Redemptive landscape, malevolent city: Scott Momaday's House made of dawn
- Discovering a substitute for salvation: John Rechy's The miraculous day of Amalia Gómez
- Conclusion: Girl X and the country of last things
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.