Title:
Postmodern humanism in contemporary literature and culture : reconciling the void / Todd F. Davis ; Kenneth Womack.
Main Entry:
Davis, Todd F., 1965-
Womack, Kenneth.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Date:
2007.
Publication Place:
Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
ISBN:
1403946817
9781403946812
Subject:
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism,
Postmodernism (Literature)
Humanism in literature.
Postmodernisme.
Bellettrie.
Amerikaans.
Contents:
Embracing the fall: reconfiguring redemption in Jim Harrison's The Womas Lit by Fireflies, Dalva, and The Road Home -- Writing back through the body: the communion of flesh and spirit in the work of Mary Swander -- Always becoming: the nature of transcendence in the poetry of Mary Oliver -- Saints, sinners, and the Dickensian novel: the ethics of storytelling in John Irving's The Cider House Rules -- Curses and blessings: identity and essentialism in the work of Sherman Alexie -- "Our long national nighmare is over": Moral repair and Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides -- "What's Filipino? What's authentic? What's inthe blood?": alterity and ethics in the novels of Jessica Hagedorn -- "Everybody has a hard year": The White Album and the Beatles' poetics of apocalypse -- Finding forgiveness, or something like it, in David Mamet's House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, and State and Main -- Performing empowerment: revisiting liberation pedagogy in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues -- How do you solve a problem like Magnolia?
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