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Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in contemporary fiction emphasizes the personal lives of characters at a time when there is an unprecedented, and often damaging, focus on the individual in American life. Through readings of works by Paul Auster, Karen Tei Yamashita, Ben Marcus, Lydia Millet, and others who stage experiments in the relationship between feeling and form, Smith argues for the centrality of a counter-tradition in contemporary literature concerned with impersonal feelings: feelings that challenge the neoliberal notion that emotions are the property of the self.

Affect (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Affect (Psychology) in literature --- Affectivité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Emoties in de literatuur --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Emotions in literature --- American literature --- 21st century --- History and criticism --- Literature and society --- United States --- Neoliberalism --- 20th century --- Auster, Paul --- Yamashita, Karen Tei --- Criticism and interpretation --- Marcus, Ben --- Millet, Lydia --- McCarthy, Cormac --- Powers, Richard --- Franzen, Jonathan --- Affect (Psychology) in literature. --- American literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Gefühl --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Literatur. --- Literature and society. --- Neoliberalism. --- Neoliberalismus. --- American --- General. --- History --- 1900-2099. --- USA. --- United States. --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Social aspects

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American Literature in Transition, 2000-2010 illuminates the dynamic transformations that occurred in American literary culture during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The volume is the first major critical collection to address the literature of the 2000s, a decade that saw dramatic changes in digital technology, economics, world affairs, and environmental awareness. Beginning with an introduction that takes stock of the period's major historical, cultural, and literary movements, the volume features accessible essays on a wide range of topics, including genre fiction, the treatment of social networking in literature, climate change fiction, the ascendency of Amazon and online booksellers, 9/11 literature, finance and literature, and the rise of prestige television. Mapping the literary culture of a decade of promise and threat, American Literature in Transition, 2000-2010 provides an invaluable resource on twenty-first century American literature for general readers, students, and scholars alike.

American literature --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History --- 2000-2099

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American literature --- Literature --- United States of America

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"Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its meaning remains ambiguous and its salience contentious. In Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith offer a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary literature through the lens of neoliberalism's economic, social, and cultural ascendance. Bringing together accessible and provocative essays from top literary scholars, this innovative collection examines neoliberalism's influence on literary theory and methodology, literary form, literary representation, and literary institutions. A four-phase approach to the historical emergence of neoliberalism from the early 1970s to the present helps to clarify the complexity of the relationship between neoliberalism and literary culture. Layering that history over diverse changes in a US-Anglo literary field that has moved away from postmodern forms and sensibilities, the book argues that many literary developments--including the return to realism, the rise of the memoir, the embrace of new materialist theory, and the pursuit of aesthetic autonomy--make more coherent sense when viewed in light of neoliberalism's ever-increasing expansion into the cultural sphere. The essays gathered here engage a diverse range of theorists...to address the reciprocal relationship between neoliberalism and conceptual fields such as biopolitics, affect, phenomenology, ecology, and new materialist ontology."--Page 4 of cover.

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