Martin Moling

Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011

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Produktbeschreibung

Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011 explores rock music and literature through the works of a diverse set of American writers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book foregrounds how popular music has inspired and transformed American literary production at the crossroads between modernism and postmodernism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 633g
• ISBN-13: 9781793647238
• ISBN-10: 1793647232
• Artikelnr.: 62124072

Autorenporträt

By Martin Moling

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: 'How Does it Feel?': Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Rock Music's
Liberating Potential in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where
Have You Been?" and Alice Walker's "Nineteen Fifty-Five"
Chapter 2: 'Renaissance on Main Street': Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and
the Discovery of a New Language in Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street
Chapter 3: 'You Don't Own Me': Girl-Group Rock and the Subversion of the
Male Gaze in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides
Chapter 4: 'Anarchy on the Rez': The Blues, Colonial Resistance and the
Negotiation of a Native-American Identity in Sherman Alexie's Reservation
Blues
Chapter 5: 'No Future': Time, Punk Rock and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from
the Goon Squad
Conclusion: And In the End...