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1 Online-Ressource (x, 158 pages)
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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691121451
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069112146X
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1400826810
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9780691121451
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9780691121468
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9781400826810
Serie:
Princeton paperbacks
Inhalt:
In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, he shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. In the process, he produces "compelling new accounts of identity politics and postmodernism that will be of
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-154) and index
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction : the twilight of the middle class -- Ch. 1 Ayn Rand and the politics of property -- Ch. 2 Race man, organization man, Invisible man -- Ch. 3 "The so-called Jewish novel" -- Ch. 4 Flannery O'Connor and the southern origins of identity politics.
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English
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ISBN 069112146X
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hoberek, Andrew, 1967- Twilight of the middle class Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©2005
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Englisch
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