Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020
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9798765109397
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9798765109397
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$142.52
Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020
$142.52
Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity.
Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 responds to existing studies of literary minimalism by pursuing three original and interrelated objectives. It provides a more inclusive and precise definition of minimalism that enables further inquiry into the mode. It also exposes the presence of minimalism beyond critical demarcations that attempt to limit the aesthetic to a particular school, medium, movement, form or decade. Finally, it argues that writers of American literary minimalism are uniquely privileged in their ability to formalize precarity and threatening cultural currents into the fragile construct that is ordinary life.
Building upon theories of affect and the everyday, Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020analyses minimalist aesthetics within the works of canonical minimalists alongside writers more frequently associated with other movements. Through readings of Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo, among others, and cultural phenomena ranging from sedation to telephony, this book exposes the persistence and political importance of minimalism within American literature from the 20th century into the 21st.
Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 responds to existing studies of literary minimalism by pursuing three original and interrelated objectives. It provides a more inclusive and precise definition of minimalism that enables further inquiry into the mode. It also exposes the presence of minimalism beyond critical demarcations that attempt to limit the aesthetic to a particular school, medium, movement, form or decade. Finally, it argues that writers of American literary minimalism are uniquely privileged in their ability to formalize precarity and threatening cultural currents into the fragile construct that is ordinary life.
Building upon theories of affect and the everyday, Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020analyses minimalist aesthetics within the works of canonical minimalists alongside writers more frequently associated with other movements. Through readings of Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo, among others, and cultural phenomena ranging from sedation to telephony, this book exposes the persistence and political importance of minimalism within American literature from the 20th century into the 21st.
| Author: Oliver Haslam |
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Publication Date: Oct 03, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 216 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: NA |
| ISBN-13: 9798765109397 |
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