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Didion, Joan --- Criticism and interpretation

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'. . . In Cold Blood, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Armies of the Night . . .' Starting in 1965 and spanning a ten-year period, a group of writers including Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, and Michael Herr emerged and joined a few of their pioneering elders, including Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, to remake American letters. The perfect chroniclers of an age of frenzied cultural change, they were blessed with the insight that traditional tools of reporting would prove inadequate to tell the story of a nation manically hopscotching from hope to doom and back again& from war to rock, assassination to drugs, hippies to Yippies, Kennedy to the dark lord Nixon. Traditional just-the-facts reporting simply couldn't provide a neat and symmetrical order to this chaos. Marc Weingarten has interviewed many of the major players to provide a startling behind-the-scenes account of the rise and fall of the most revolutionary literary outpouring of the postwar era, set against the backdrop of some of the most turbulent& and significant& years in contemporary American life. These are the stories behind those stories, from Tom Wolfe's white-suited adventures in the counterculture to Hunter S. Thompson's drug-addled invention of gonzo to Michael Herr's redefinition of war reporting in the hell of Vietnam. Weingarten also tells the deeper backstory, recounting the rich and surprising history of the editors and the magazines who made the movement possible, notably the three greatest editors of the era& Harold Hayes at 'Esquire', Clay Felker at 'New York', and Jann Wenner at 'Rolling Stone'. And finally Weingarten takes us through the demise of the New Journalists, a tragedy of hubris, miscalculation, and corporate menacing. This is the story of perhaps the last great good time in American journalism, a time when writers didn't just cover stories but immersed themse

American prose literature --- Journalism --- Reportage literature, American --- History and criticism. --- History --- Mailer, Norman --- Didion, Joan --- Wolfe, Tom --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990's novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Roth's American Pastoral, Morrison's Paradise, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted, Eugenides's Middlesex, Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, and DeLillo's Underworld. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is iro

American fiction --- American fiction. --- Bellettrie. --- Literature and history --- Literature and history. --- Littérature et histoire --- Roman américain --- Roman. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique. --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte 1994-2003. --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1990-1999 --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- United States --- Pynchon, Thomas --- O'Brien, Tim --- Morrison, Toni --- Roth, Philip --- Didion, Joan --- DeLillo, Don --- Lethem, Jonathan --- Criticism and interpretation --- Eugenides, Jeffrey

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American literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Quests (Expeditions) in literature --- Quests in literature --- Quêtes (Expéditions) dans la littérature --- Quêtes (littérature) --- Quêtes dans la littérature --- Voyage initiatique (littérature) --- Zoektochten (Expeditie) in de literatuur --- Zoektochten in de literatuur --- American prose literature --- History and criticism. --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Bowles, Paul Frederick --- Criticism and interpretation --- Theroux, Paul --- Matthiessen, Peter --- Collins, Michael --- Didion, Joan --- Dillard, Annie --- Haley, Alex Palmer --- Arlen, Michael --- Clark, Eleanor --- McPhee, John --- Hoagland, Edward --- Morris, Mary --- Zweig, Paul --- Doerr, Harriet --- Dickey, James --- Bellow, Saul --- Mailer, Norman

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In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.

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