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This study offers a lucid explication of the often stormy relationship between contemporary American literature and criticism. Repudiating the jargon of theory, it systematically makes sense of the movements of the last two decades: deconstruction, feminism. The author fuses a layman's guide to recent criticism with a scholarly work that directly engages theories of narrative by applying them to the works of prominent American writers.
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"Clear, easily readable, vigorous....A model of scholarship and editing....Highly recommended."--Choice
"Great breakdowns by sub-topics within chapters."--Rita Mignacca, SUNY College at Brockport
"A superb introduction to issues of borders and margins in American narrative production. It will figure prominently in establishing a new research agenda in US studies."--David William Foster, Arizona State University
"Not just a brilliant and lucid account of recent developments in American culture, this book, with its contentious brief for diversity, induces in the reader a kind of intellectual euphoria. It would be a curmudgeonly reader indeed who could resist Clayton's powerful, and empowering, optimism."--Margaret Homans, Yale University
"Has literature declined due to politics and multiculturalism? Jay Clayton persuasively demonstrates to the contrary, and shows how politics itself may gain a deeper sense of pluralism from the riches of contemporary novels. This book sparkles with insights small and large."--Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0195083725
- ISBN 13 9780195083729
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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