American Mythologies : New Essays on Contemporary Literature.
Blazek, William.
American Mythologies : New Essays on Contemporary Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (315 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Indians with Voices: Revisiting Savagism and Civilization -- 2: Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich -- 3: Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee: Mythologies of Representation in Selected Writings on Boxing by Norman Mailer -- 4: The Secret Sharing: Myth and Memory in the Writing of Jayne Anne Phillips -- 5: The Individual's Ghost: Towards a New Mythology of the Postmodern -- 6: 'Cheap, On Sale, American Dream': Contemporary Asian American Women Writers' Responses to American Success Mythologies -- 7: 'No Way Back Forever': American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy -- 8: Native American Visions of Apocalypse: Prophecy and Protest in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor -- 9: The Brave New World of Computing in Post-war American Science Fiction -- 10: Mythologies of 'Ecstatic immersion': America, The Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot -- 11: Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz -- 12: Aging, Anxious and Apocalyptic: Baseball's Myths for the Millennium -- 13: Finding a Voice, Telling a Story: Constructing Communal Identity in Contemporary American Women's Writing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
This challenging new book looks at the current reinvention of American Studies: a reinvention that, among other things, has put the whole issue of just what is American and what is American Studies into contention.
9781781386101
American literature-20th century-History and criticism.
American literature-Indian authors.
Indian mythology in literature.
Electronic books.
American Mythologies : New Essays on Contemporary Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (315 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Indians with Voices: Revisiting Savagism and Civilization -- 2: Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich -- 3: Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee: Mythologies of Representation in Selected Writings on Boxing by Norman Mailer -- 4: The Secret Sharing: Myth and Memory in the Writing of Jayne Anne Phillips -- 5: The Individual's Ghost: Towards a New Mythology of the Postmodern -- 6: 'Cheap, On Sale, American Dream': Contemporary Asian American Women Writers' Responses to American Success Mythologies -- 7: 'No Way Back Forever': American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy -- 8: Native American Visions of Apocalypse: Prophecy and Protest in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor -- 9: The Brave New World of Computing in Post-war American Science Fiction -- 10: Mythologies of 'Ecstatic immersion': America, The Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot -- 11: Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz -- 12: Aging, Anxious and Apocalyptic: Baseball's Myths for the Millennium -- 13: Finding a Voice, Telling a Story: Constructing Communal Identity in Contemporary American Women's Writing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
This challenging new book looks at the current reinvention of American Studies: a reinvention that, among other things, has put the whole issue of just what is American and what is American Studies into contention.
9781781386101
American literature-20th century-History and criticism.
American literature-Indian authors.
Indian mythology in literature.
Electronic books.