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Understanding Richard Powers presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey guides readers through Powers's combination of lexical virtuosity and structural daring - typical of the postmodernists - and the novelist's concern with the profound and humane dilemmas surrounding love and death characteristic of the late-twentieth-century realists. Dewey contends that while Powers's novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson - the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination.
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Joseph Dewey is an associate professor of contemporary American literature at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dewey, Joseph. Understanding Richard Powers. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket with dent to the lower edge on the front. Black cloth with white lettering to the front, also dented to front base. Binding strong. x, 176pp. Contents clean and bright. Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2023, Powers has published thirteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Seller Inventory # ABE-1716817798863
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