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Shopping in space : essays on America's blank-generation fiction
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Shopping in space : essays on America's blank-generation fiction / Elizabeth Young and Graham Caveney.
ISBN
0871135426
9780871135421
Published
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press with Serpent's Tail, 1993.
Physical Description
288 pages ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Drenttel Auster 213: "First printing"--T.p. verso. Dust jacket. From the William Drenttel collection of Paul Auster.
Notes
Includes passing mention of Paul Auster's work on pages 6, 139, and 167.
Summary
A combination of cultural analysis and literary criticsm that reveals such books as Jay McInerney's Bright lights, big city and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than zero to be illuminating critiques, not merely products, of a society shaped by consumer capitalism and media saturation.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 10, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Children of the revolution : fiction takes to the streets / Elizabeth Young
Vacant possession : Bret Easton Ellis, Less than zero / Elizabeth Young
Psychodrama : Qu'est-ce que c'est? : Jay McInerney / Graham Caveney
French kissing in the USA : Michael Chabon / Graham Caveney
The beast in the jungle, the figure in the carpet : Bret Easton Ellis, American psycho / Elizabeth Young
Notes degree zero : Ellis goes West / Graham Caveney
A city on the kill : Joel Rose / Graham Caveney
Library of the ultravixens : Tama Janowitz, Mary Gaitskill, Catherine Texier / Elizabeth Young
Silence, exile and cunning : the writing of Lynne Tillman / Elizabeth Young
Crashing in the fast lane : Gary Indiana / Graham Caveney
On the road again : David Wojnarowicz / Elizabeth Young
Death in Disneyland : Dennis Cooper / Elizabeth Young.
References
Drenttel, William. Paul Auster, entry E50
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