Paul Auster's (Post)modern Chronotopes:: Space, Time, Genre (Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture, Band 42)

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Published by Peter Lang 09.2024., 2024

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266 Seiten Tadelloses, neuwertiges Exemplar. - - - Table of Contents - Introduction - 9 - From Postmodernism to a Postmodern Novel - - 9 - The Problem of a Genre. 14 - - Chronotopicity of Genres. 16 - - Detecting Chronotopes: Auster's Postmodern - - Detective Fiction. 23 - 1. Investigating Detective Fiction. 23 - 1.1 The Beginnings . 23 - 1.2 The Evolution of Detective Fiction . 27 - 1.3 Postmodern Detective Fiction. 35 - 2. The New York Trilogy - Introduction. 39 - 3. City of Glass.40 - 3.1 City of Glass - Staging the Investigation. 40 - 3.2 Peregrinations in Fictional Worlds . 51 - 3.3 Spaces of Identity Loss. 56 - 3.4 Conclusion .72 - 4. Ghosts. 75 - 4.1 Who Is Investigating Whom? A Hard-boiled Case Goes Wrong . 75 - 4.2 Metafiction and Language in Ghosts.85 - 4.3 A Road to Nowhere.89 - 4.4 Conclusion .97 - - The Locked Room. 101 - - 5.1 Lost in the Locked Room - A Case with No Solution.101 - - 5.2 - 5.3 - 5.4 - The "Ghost" in Space Investigating Texts . Conclusion . - 112 - 119 - 120 - - 6 - Table of Contents - Travels Inside a Room - Travels Inside a - - Mind: Paul Auster's Psychological Novel.125 - 1. Psychological Novel as a Genre.125 - 1.1 Defining Psychological Fiction.125 - 1.2 Postmodern Psychological Novel.132 - 2. Travels in the Scriptorium.134 - 2.1 Lost in the Authorial World.134 - 2.2 Mr. Blank's Therapy.136 - 2.3 The Room as a Place of Memory.144 - 2.4 Life as a Book.149 - 2.5 Conclusion .154 - 3. Man in the Dark.156 - 3.1 The Presence of Trauma in Fiction .156 - 3.2 Ontological Darkness.159 - 3.3 The Room of Possibilities .161 - 3.4 In Alternative America - The Act of Storytelling .165 - 3.5 Dealing With Trauma by Means of Fiction . 169 - 3.6 Conclusion .172 - - Journeying Across the Country and Through - - Life: Road Novel and Bildungsroman.175 - 1. Road as a Genre-Defining Category.175 - 2. Road Novel as a Genre.176 - 3. The Music of Chance.183 - 3.1 The Music of Chance - Tradition Preserved or Reinterpreted? . 183 - 3.2 From the Openness of the Road to the Confinement of the Meadow . 191 - 3.3 Conclusion .198 - 4. The Bildungsroman - Origins.200 - 5. Mr. Vertigo - The Bildungsroman on the Road.205 - 5.1 Walt Rawley's Road to Self-Realisation .205 - - - Table of Contents - 7 - 5.2 The Road Across the Country - 215 - 5.3 Mr. Vertigo and Magical Realism. 222 - - 5.5 Conclusion - 228 - Conclusion.233 - Works Cited. 241 - Index - 259 - ISBN 9783631906347 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495.

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Paul Auster's (Post)modern Chronotopes:: Space, Time, Genre (Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture, Band 42)
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