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John Irving and cultural mourning / Bouchra Belgaid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belgaid, Bouchra, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narcissism in literature.
- Grief in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Irving, John, 1942---Criticism and interpretation.
- Irving, John.
- Irving, John, 1942---Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John Irving and Cultural Mourning offers a chronological survey of his eleven novels, examining his prose via thematically focused chapters on postmodernism, the sixties, fatherhood, narcissism, mourning and finally self-redemption.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Postmodernism or the literature of exhaustion
- The sixties: years of throwing off inhibitions
- Irving's family romances
- Irving and narcissism
- Mourning and grief in Irving's fiction
- Epilogue. The fourth hand and groping toward self-redemption.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-28489-5
- 1-283-61387-5
- 0-7391-3795-6
- 9786613926326
- OCLC:
- 855502439
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