Douglas Coupland / Andrew Tate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tate, Andrew, 1971- author.

Series:

Contemporary American & Canadian Writers

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coupland, Douglas--Criticism and interpretation.

Coupland, Douglas.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century?s most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland?s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction. Emerging in the last decade of the twentieth century - amidst the absurd contradictions of instantaneous global communication and acute poverty - Coupland?s novels, short stories, essays and visual art have intervened in.

Contents:

List of abbreviations; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Coupland's contexts; 2 'Denarration' or getting a life: Coupland and narrative; 3 'I am not a target market': Coupland, consumption and junk culture; 4 Nowhere, anywhere, somewhere: Coupland and space; 5 'You are the first generation raised without religion': Coupland and postmodern spirituality; 6 Conclusion: JPod and Coupland in the future; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-181) and index.

ISBN:

9781847796738

1847796737

9781781701201

1781701202

9781847791924

1847791921

OCLC:

818847308