Passing into the present

Sinead Moynihan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender p... Lees meer

Philip Roth

David Brauner

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and... Lees meer

Cormac McCarthy

Lydia R Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's ... Lees meer

The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction

Michael Kalisch

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction - from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu - has redi... Lees meer

Making Home

Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom, Maria Holmgren Troy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Lees meer

Marilynne Robinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary theme... Lees meer

Cormac McCarthy

Lydia R Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's ... Lees meer

The Quiet Contemporary American Novel

Rachel Sykes

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to the s... Lees meer

Paul Auster

Mark Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This study explores all of Auster's artistic output - both published and unpublished - for the first time, and considers, in considerable depth, his m... Lees meer

Douglas Coupland

Andrew Tate

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland's career, from Gener... Lees meer

Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship

Zalfa Feghali

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework to theorise ho... Lees meer

Mark Z. Danielewski

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This is the first book-length study of Mark Z. Danielewski, an American novelist who is rapidly establishing himself as a leading figure in the landsc... Lees meer

Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship

Zalfa Feghali

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indi... Lees meer

The Quiet Contemporary American Novel

Rachel Sykes

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to the s... Lees meer

The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction

Michael Kalisch

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction - from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu - has redi... Lees meer

Thomas Pynchon

Simon Malpas, Andrew Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon Lees meer

Sara Paretsky

Cynthia Hamilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for fe... Lees meer