Tom Wolfe's America: Heroes, Pranksters, and Fools
Autor Kevin T. McEneaneyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 apr 2009 – vârsta până la 17 ani
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780313365447
ISBN-10: 031336544X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 031336544X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Notă biografică
Kevin T. McEneaney is the author of two books, The Enclosed Garden and longing, which has been translated into French and Japanese. He has published over 50 encyclopedia articles and is the Co-editor of The Irish Literary Supplement. He teaches at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Rockland County, New York.
Cuprins
PrefaceCHAPTER 1. The Manhattan VirginianCHAPTER 2. Journalism and HyperboleCHAPTER 3. Prankster RiddlesCHAPTER 4. From Reporting to PoliticsCHAPTER 5. Historian at Edge CityCHAPTER 6. Iconoclastic Culture ShreddingCHAPTER 7. Vanity RagsCHAPTER 8. Cultural DriftCHAPTER 9. The Ivory Tower in Ruins?CHAPTER 10. Vroom! Wolfe's Status in American LiteratureNotesBibliographyIndex
Recenzii
Following a short biographical chapter on American contemporary writer, Tom Wolfe, McEneaney (Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York) offers scholars an analysis of Wolfe's journalism, essays, and novels. The text emphasizes the literary qualities of Wolfe's journalism and fiction as they relate to his sociological perspective on American society, and the questions he raises about social trends, patriotism, religion, manners and mores against the backdrop of American history and society. McEneaney also considers how Wolfe uses influences from French, English and past American literature in an original way that comments on American society; his peculiar and unique use of ironic counterpoint; and the relationship of Wolfe's satiric strain to his understanding of private and public morality.
Free of jargon, full of careful analysis of Wolfe's writing and his 'America,' appreciative of the serious intentions (for good or evil) behind every 'prank' and holy 'fool' from the Beats to the Black Panthers and the neoconservatives, McEneaney's well-written, well-researched, and well-balanced study of a controversial, often-underrated writer focuses attention on Wolfe and on the rich array of American literary adventures that followed WW II. . . . Highly recommended. All readers.
Free of jargon, full of careful analysis of Wolfe's writing and his 'America,' appreciative of the serious intentions (for good or evil) behind every 'prank' and holy 'fool' from the Beats to the Black Panthers and the neoconservatives, McEneaney's well-written, well-researched, and well-balanced study of a controversial, often-underrated writer focuses attention on Wolfe and on the rich array of American literary adventures that followed WW II. . . . Highly recommended. All readers.