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Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility
Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction
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Authors: Judie Newman
Categories: Literary Criticism
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This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization throug
Dandyism
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Authors: Len Gutkin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-26 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, reverberates in surprising corners of
Useful Fictions
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Michael Austin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed inThe White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, inUseful Fictions. Why, in particular, a
Geek Love
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National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibi