Coming of age in contemporary American fiction
This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the coming-of-age novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood.
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
2007.
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Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4205204x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Russell Banks, Rule of the bone
- Brady Udall, The miracle life of Edgar Mint
- Geoffrey Wolff, The age of consent
- Gish Jen, Mona in the promised land
- Jeffrey Eugenides, The virgin suicides
- Rick Moody, Purple America
- Scott Bradfield, The history of luminous motion
- Mark Richard, Fishboy
- Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
- Josephine Humphreys, Rich in love
- Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac nation.