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Dorson, James

 
9783593505541: Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac Mccarthy's Westerns
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3593505541 ISBN 13 : 9783593505541
Editeur : Campus Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

Counternarrative Possibilities reads Cormac McCarthy's westerns against the backdrop of American mythology's two formative national tropes: virgin land (from the 1950s) and homeland (after 9/11). Looking at McCarthy's westerns in the context of American studies, James Dorson shows how his books counter the national narratives underlying these tropes and reinvest them with new, potentially transformative meaning. Departing from prevailing accounts of McCarthy that place him in relation to his literary antecedents, Counternarrative Possibilities takes a forward-looking approach that reads McCarthy's work as a key influence on millennial fiction. Weaving together disciplinary history with longstanding debates over the relationship between aesthetics and politics, this book is at once an exploration of the limits of ideology critique in the twenty-first century and a timely, original reconsideration of McCarthy's work after postmodernism.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Dorson is assistant professor of North American studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Freie Universität Berlin.

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Éditeur
Campus Verlag
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3593505541
ISBN 13 
9783593505541
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
360
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Personne responsable
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