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Journal articles on the topic "Contemporary American Novel"

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Stulov, Yuri. "The Cityscape in the Contemporary African-American Urban Novel." Respectus Philologicus 24, no. 29 (2013): 65–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2013.24.29.5.

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This paper discusses the cityscape as an essential element of African American fiction. Since the time of Romanticism, the city has been regarded as the embodiment of evil forces which are alien to human nature and radiate fear and death. For decades, African-Americans have been isolated in the black ghettos of major American cities which were in many ways responsible for their personal growth or their failure. Often this failure is determined by their inability to find their bearings in a strange and alien world, which the city symbolizes. The world beyond the black ghetto is shown as brutal and terrifying, while the world inside is devoid of hope. Crime, vandalism, poverty, overcrowding, and social conflicts turn out to be the landmarks of big cities, because the people who migrate to them and make up most of their population are also the poorest and least adapted to urban life: they have lost their roots, and feel displaced in the anonymous urban society. A number of African-American novels depict protagonists who are unable to adapt to life in a big city, and end in degradation and misery. James Baldwin’s novels are among the most representative. His disordered and dislocated characters are products of the external world of the city of the machine age, and as such they are characteristic of all African-American fiction. This paper analyzes some of the recent black novels that reverberate with Baldwin’s ideas.

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Mizruchi, S. "Risk Theory and the Contemporary American Novel." American Literary History 22, no. 1 (2009): 109–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajp053.

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Morley, Catherine. "The Quiet Contemporary American Novel, Rachel Sykes (2018)." European Journal of American Culture 39, no. 1 (2020): 128–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00017_5.

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Foster, David William, and Jonathan Tittler. "Narrative Irony in the Contemporary Spanish-American Novel." Hispania 68, no. 2 (1985): 318. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/342189.

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Hassett, John J., and Jonathan E. Tittler. "Narrative Irony in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel." Hispanic Review 53, no. 4 (1985): 515. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/473955.

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Adam, Alfred Mac, and Jonathan Tittler. "Narrative Irony in the Contemporary Spanish-American Novel." Hispanic Review 62, no. 3 (1994): 454. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/475165.

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Butenina, Evgenia M. "DOSTOEVSKY’S CONFESSIONAL NARRATIVE AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ADOLESCENT NOVEL." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология, no. 2 (2016): 94–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2037-6681-2016-2-94-100.

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Blasi, Alberto, and Jonathan Tittler. "Narrative Irony in the Contemporary Spanish-American Novel." World Literature Today 59, no. 2 (1985): 250. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40141498.

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Gregory, Stephen. "The Contemporary Spanish American Novel: Bolaño and After." Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 21, no. 1 (2015): 163–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2015.1047006.

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Blashkiv, Oksana. "Vagaries of (Academic) Identity in Contemporary Fiction." Journal of Education Culture and Society 9, no. 1 (2018): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20181.151.160.

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Aim. The article attempts to look at question of academic identities through the prism the academic novel. This literary genre emerged in English and American literature in early 1950s and centers on the image of the professor. In Slavic literatures the genre of the academic novel appears roughly in early 1990s, which is directly connected with the change of the political order following the fall of the Berlin Wall and disbanding of the Soviet Union. Contemporary Ukrainian literature with its post-Soviet heritage presents a unique source for the study of academic discourse. Methods. An interdisciplinary approach which combines sociological investigation of academic identity (Henkel 2005) and hermeneutic literary analysis is used for this study. In this respect three novels from the contemporary Ukrainian literature – “University” (2007) and “Kaleidoscope” (2009) by Igor Yosypiv, and “Drosophila over a Volume of Kant” (2010) by Anatoliy Dnistrovyj – are chosen for analysis. Results. Analysis of the novels shows that the literary representation of academics’ lives goes in line with the sociological findings, which, in defining a successful academic, put a strong accent on a discipline and academic institution. The interpretation of Yosypiv’s novels about a Ukrainian nephrologist at the American Medical School suggests that protagonist’s academic success is rooted in the field of applied science as well as an American institution of higher education, while Dnistrovyj’s novel sees a failure of a philosophy professor in the crisis of the Humanities as survived in post-Soviet Ukraine. Conclusion. The given novels of Igor Yosypiv and Anatoliy Dnistrovyj show that in case of academic identity theme, the academic novels support sociological studies, i.e. the discipline (Applied Sciences and Humanities) as well as the university rank (American vs. post-Soviet) play a decisive role in scholars’ academic life. This in its turn proves that the academic novel, like in the time of its emergence in the 1950s, continues to be a literary chronicler of higher education.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Contemporary American Novel"

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Burns, Thomas Laborie. "Perceptions of power in the contemporary American novel." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1996. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106431.

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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1996.<br>Made available in DSpace on 2013-12-05T20:30:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 105060.pdf: 13255341 bytes, checksum: 75e7081637c701bbd84ed70a5310eff2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996<br>Este estudo tenta delinear como o poder - tanto institutional quanto representacional - é percebido na ficção norte-americana do período pós-guerra até o presente. O trabalho examina romancistas representativos e analisa uma série de trabalhos individuais dentro de seu conteúdo histórico. Na primeira parte, teorias sócio-políticas sobre o poder fornecem o suporte teórico para detectar como o poder é visto nos romances. A segunda parte discute o romance político pós-guerra, Gore Vidal e Norman Mailer, entre outros. Constata-se que uma percepção de poder Weberiana (adversarial) de poder por parte dos romancistas da segunda parte é substuída por uma visão Foucaltiana (poder insidiosamente filtrado) por parte dos romancistas da terceira parte, o que corresponde a transformação da sociedade contemporânea, sua política e cultura no capitalismo multinacional, durante e depois dos anos 60.

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Yoon, Ji Young. "Contesting Americanness in the Contemporary Asian American Bildungsroman." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18357.

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My study examines contemporary Asian American narratives of subject formation through the theoretical lens of the Bildungsroman. A European genre originating in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteen-century Germany, the conventional Bildungsroman is a literary tool whose main objective is to depict an idealized subject's modern socialization. As Franco Moretti nicely captures in his study of the Bildungsroman, The Way of the World, the genre's significance is, above all, its successful representation of a reconciliation of an individual's revolting desires and society's regulatory demands. While highlighting a harmonious convergence of an individual and society, Moretti points to a white European subject's becoming a normative citizen in the rise of bourgeois capitalism. American writers of Asian descent have both utilized and transformed the conventional Bildungsroman form to describe their particular subject formation in the United States. The Asian American Bildungsroman differs from the white American as well as the European Bildungsroman, both formally and thematically, mainly because the racial group's social, political, and economic conditions have been marked by the U.S. exclusion of Asians. Asian American writers' generic interventions of the Bildungsroman thus exhibit their distinctive formal interventions and textual strategies to respond to legal and social exclusions of Asians in this country. In reading four Asian American narratives of subject formation, either novelistic or (auto)biographical in form, I argue the writers invented new versions of the genre, including the communal, the assimilative, the deconstructive, and the competitive Bildungsromane. This dissertation examines how conditions of textual expressions of the contemporary Asian American Bildungsroman have been not only predominantly marked by race but also further affected by class. The significance of the Asian American Bildungsroman is at once its interrogation of the contradiction within the American ideals and its construction of Asian American subjecthood.

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Benson, Josef D. "Failed Heroes: Hypermasculinity in the Contemporary American Novel." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3975.

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My study highlights a link of U.S. American hypermasculinity running through Cormac McCarthy's two novels Blood Meridian (1985) and All the Pretty Horses (1992), Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), and James Baldwin's Another Country (1960). My literary interpretations of these texts suggest that U.S. American hypermasculine man originated in the American frontier and transformed into a definition of hegemonic masculinity embraced by many southern rural American men. These southern rural American men then concocted the myth of the black rapist in order to justify the mass murder of African American men after Reconstruction, inadvertently creating a figure more hypermasculine than themselves. Many black men embraced the myth of the black rapist as well as the baser patriarchal aspects of white male southern power. Consequently, black hypermasculinity evolved into the paragon of American hypermasculinity. Failed Heroes further argues that some protagonists in postwar American literature heroically fail in order not to perpetuate hypermasculinities. Continuing a modernist trend of anti-heroism, the selected protagonists develop into marginalized men due to their failure to live up to hypermasculine societal expectations. The protagonists' failure to perpetuate hypermasculinities proves heroic since it illustrates the destructiveness of these sensibilities; as a result, a sense of ironic heroism emerges from the narratives. In Blood Meridian, set in the mid-nineteenth century U.S. American West, the kid fails heroically to construct a masculine identity outside of the textual order of the judge, indicting the hypermasculine philosophies of the judge and calling into question the book's violence. In no way is the kid a classic hero; rather, his collapse exists as a direct critique of the judge's destructive philosophies. In All the Pretty Horses, set in the mid-twentieth century U.S. American South, John Grady fails to actualize his cowboy fantasy, but proves heroic in exposing its danger and destructiveness. At the end of the novel he vanishes into the countryside a failure, but unlike the mythic cowboy, he assumes the role of heroic failure because his narrative contributes to the relinquishment of a destructive male myth. In Song of Solomon, set in Ohio and Virginia during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movements, Milkman Dead functions as a black man who has the opportunity to break free from choking definitions of black masculinity. In the end he fails to break free and flies to Africa, leaving his family and his only hope at real freedom, his aunt Pilate, to die. Continuing a cycle of male flight at the expense of his family, community, and cultural guide renders him a failure. Morrison's final critique of hypermasculinity positions Pilate as the failed hero and shifts the emphasis of the novel to the women who represent victims of kinship systems and the incest taboo. The incest in the novel functions as a metaphor for Pilate's philosophy that black identity ought to come from black culture, a notion I call cultural incest. Another Country, set in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s, details the plight of an urban African American man struggling to reconcile his homosexual desire with the black hypermasculine cool pose he dons as overcompensation. Rufus Scott's death proves heroic as a critique of the rigid definitions of urban black masculinity. African Americans, and by extension all Americans, might employ their U.S. American history of oppression as a platform for a new vision of masculinity based on heteronormative failure and queerness. The association of blackness with oppression, and as a result non-normative sexuality, presents an opportunity to redefine blackness as abjection. The very failure of African Americans in measuring up to destructive notions of hypermasculinity might exist as a new definition of blackness and masculinity for all Americans.

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Hebble, Susan Morrison. "Playing grown-up : adulthood in the contemporary American novel /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841205.

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Annesley, James. "Blank fiction : culture, consumption and the contemporary American novel." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321347.

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Le, Brun Fiona Jane. "Representations of female sexuality within the contemporary American novel." Thesis, Keele University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242290.

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Gallagher, Mark. "Action figures : spectacular masculinity in the contemporary action film and the contemporary American novel /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978590.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 320-335). Includes filmography (leaves 335-337). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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DeToy, Terence. "It's All In the Family?Metamodernism and the Contemporary (Anglo-) -"American" Novel." Thesis, Tufts University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3728511.

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<p> This dissertation examines the function of family as a thematic in the contemporary Anglo-American novel. It argues that contemporary aesthetics increasingly presents the family as an enabling platform for conciliation with the social totality: as a space of personal development, readying one for life in the wider social field. This analyses hinges on readings of Jonathan Franzen’s <i>Freedom</i> (2010), Zadie Smith’s <i> NW</i> (2012), A. M. Homes’ <i>May We Be Forgiven</i> (2012) and Caryl Phillips’ <i>In the Falling Snow.</i> In approaching these novels, this project addresses the theoretical lacuna left open by the much-touted retreat of postmodernism as a general cultural-aesthetic strategy. This project identifies these novels as examples of a new and competing ideological constellation: metamodernism. Metamodernism encompasses the widely cited return of sincerity to contemporary aesthetics, though this project explains this development in a novel way: as a cultural expression from within the wider arc of postmodernism itself. One recurrent supposition within this project is that postmodernism, in its seeming nihilism, betrays a thwarted political commitment; on the other hand contemporary metamodern attitudes display the seriousness and earnestness of political causes carried out to an ironic disregard of the political. Metamodernism, in other words, is not a wholesale disavowal of postmodern irony, but a re-arrangement of its function: a move from sincere irony to an ironic sincerity. The central inquiry of this dissertation is into this re-arranged role of family and familial participation amidst this new cultural landscape. My argument is that family and the political have maintained a tense relationship through the twentieth century in the American consciousness. They represent competing models of futurity in a zero-sum game for an individual’s life-energy. What metamodernism represents, so this dissertation will articulate, is a new form of anti-politics: a fully gratified impulse to depoliticize. Analyzing what this project terms the “politics of the local,” this dissertation will argue that the highly popular and successful models of conscientious capitalism have been superseded. Today, increasingly, redemption from consumerism guilt is itself wrapped up in commodities: the utopian impulse celebrated by Fredric Jameson has itself obtained a price tag. The contemporary novel thus reflects new social functions for that which has trumped the political: the family. </p>

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Reis, Ashley E. "With the Earth in Mind: Ecological Grief in the Contemporary American Novel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849760/.

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"With the Earth in Mind" responds to some of the most cutting-edge research in the field of ecocriticism, which centers on ecological loss and the grief that ensues. Ecocritics argue that ecological objects of loss abound--for instance, species are disappearing and landscapes are becoming increasingly compromised--and yet, such loss is often deemed "ungrievable." While humans regularly grieve human losses, we understand very little about how to genuinely grieve the loss of nonhuman being, natural environments, and ecological processes. My dissertation calls attention to our society's tendency to participate in superficial nature-nostalgia, rather than active and engaged environmental mourning, and ultimately activism. Herein, I investigate how an array of postwar and contemporary American novels represent a complex relationship between environmental degradation and mental illness. Literature, I suggest, is crucial to investigations of this problem because it can reveal the human consequences of ecological loss in a way that is unavailable to political, philosophical, scientific, and even psychological discourse.

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Pepper, Andrew. "Unites states of detection : race, ethnicity and the contemporary American crime novel." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363371.

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There has been much debate over the nature of relations between the different ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Some argue that the United States is a genuinely multi-cultural nation where the opportunity for universal socio-political and economic advancement still exists. Others, however, paint America as a nation fundamentally split down a black'/'white' middle, despite the recent arrival of vast numbers of immigrants from Asia and Latin America and maintain that racially-determined discrimination has irrevocably undermined its pluralist ambitions. It is my belief that neither position offers an entirely accurate portrait of the nature of relations between different ethnic and racial groups, because neither offers a suitably complex and flexible model for boundary or identity construction. Using Bakhtin's theory of 'dialogics' I argue that detective fiction can provide this kind of model because the novel is "heteroglot" and as such reflects all the voices present in society, and the detective acts as a kind of cultural mediator who moves between and thus draws together the different racial and ethnic groups. I also explore the formal and thematic characteristics of detective fiction produced by writers of African-American, Chicano, Cuban and Jewish descent in order to establish how their experiences have been different. Yet, it is not my aim to seal off the various groups in pure ethnic enclaves; rather, to assess whether and where the areas of commonality exist. To this extent, I theorize 'race' and 'ethnicity' as overlapping yet diverging categories. I argue that the ethnic detective novel acknowledges this situation and offers a model for identity construction which both recognizes the extent of racial divisions but which is also flexible enough to acknowledge that significant group interplay does also take place.

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Books on the topic "Contemporary American Novel"

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Brian, Jarvis, and Jenner Paul, eds. The contemporary American novel in context. Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011.

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The American novel now: Contemporary American fiction since 1980. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Aggressive fictions: Reading the contemporary American novel. Cornell University Press, 2012.

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The American novel now: Reading contemporary American fiction since 1980. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Daughters of self-creation: The contemporary Chicana novel. University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

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The contemporary American crime novel: Race, ethnicity, gender, class. Edinburgh University Press, 2000.

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Love and politics in the contemporary Spanish American novel. University of Texas Press, 2010.

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González, Aníbal. Love and politics in the contemporary Spanish American novel. University of Texas Press, 2010.

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James, Annesley. Blank fictions: Consumerism, culture, and the contemporary American novel. Pluto Press, 1998.

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Pepper, Andrew. The contemporary American crime novel: Race, ethnicity, gender, class. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Contemporary American Novel"

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Connell, Liam. "Dying to Work: American Nationalism and the End of Productive Labour." In Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63928-4_4.

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Tavares-dos-Santos, José-Vicente, Enio Passiani, and Julio Souto Salom. "The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature." In Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-42573-7_8.

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Schur, Richard. "Stomping the Blues No More? Hip Hop Aesthetics and Contemporary African American Literature." In New Essays on the African American Novel. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-61275-4_14.

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Schmitz-Emans, Monika. "Book Design as Literary Strategy: Aka Morchiladze’s Novel Santa Esperanza and Its Poetics of Playful Storytelling." In The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22545-2_10.

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Nischik, Reingard M. "“Books and Books and Books … an Oasis of the Forbidden”: Writing and Print Culture as Metaphor and Medium for Survival in Margaret Atwood’s Novel The Handmaid’s Tale." In The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22545-2_4.

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Coelho, Maria Josele Bucco. "(In)submissive Imaginaries in the Contemporary Brazilian Historical Novel: A Reading of Um defeito de cor by Ana Maria Gonçalves." In Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137349705_9.

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Walonen, Michael K. "Speculation, Social Conflict, and the Ethics of Untrammeled Accumulation in the American Neoliberal Financier Novel." In Contemporary World Narrative Fiction and the Spaces of Neoliberalism. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-54955-6_3.

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Lagapa, Jason. "Pages to Come: Utopian Longing and the Merging of the Detective Story with the Artist’s Novel in Alice Notley’s Disobedience." In Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55284-2_5.

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Botero, Beatriz L. "Introduction: Liminal Females in Contemporary Latin-American Novels." In Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68158-0_1.

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Meyntjens, Gert-Jan. "Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature." In New Directions in Book History. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53614-5_13.

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AbstractThis chapter analyzes literary advice culture from a transnational-comparative perspective. It sheds light on the reception of the American poetics of creative writing in contemporary France by examining the specific case of Outils du roman: Avec Malt Olbren sur les pistes et exercices du creative writing à l’américaine (2016, Tools of the Novel. Exploring American Creative Writing with Malt Olbren) by the experimental prose-writer François Bon. This text represents a broader dynamic in which French authors of literary advice resort to a repertoire of American writing techniques in an attempt to revive French literature. To conceptualize this process of transfer, I use Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of “minor literature.” This notion conveys how literary advice in France must constantly position itself vis-à-vis its American counterpart, but also how it appropriates and transforms this same body of ideas and techniques. More generally, this chapter makes a case for an increased consideration of supranational transfers in the domain of literary advice when studying processes of local literary change.

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Conference papers on the topic "Contemporary American Novel"

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Santa Lucia, Andrew. "A Strange Transamerican Optimism." In 2016 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2016.57.

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A contemporary strand of Transamerican architects working between the American continents have developed a discernible attitude towards architecture, a Strange Optimism, a radical agenda of novel social participation encompassed by progressive architectural instrumentality. This work runs counter to the more accepted genealogies of Latin American architecture and its utilitarian, political or contextual in the second half of the 20th century. This essay will define a Strange Transamerican Optimism in the work of Sydney/New York/Madrid’s Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Mexico’s Pedro y Juana andBolivia’s Freddy Mamani Silvestre.

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