| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 209 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Violence and space -- Discovering fourthspace in Appalachia : Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark and Child of God -- Russell Banks's Affliction : "all those solitary dumb angry men" -- Of vultures, eyeballs, and parrots : Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle -- The myth of the Boatright Men : Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- Playing for death : Don Delillo's End Zone -- Drifting through Urantia : greyhound space in Denis Johnson's Angels -- The return of John Smith : Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer -- "The Battle of Bob Hope" and "The Great Elephant Zap" : Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers -- "I hope you didn't go into raw space without me": Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho -- Violence and family structures |
| Summary |
Examines 10 novels for the ways they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. The author argues that each of the novels he studies represent a "fourthspace" at the margins of physical, social, and psychological space, a territory at the cultural borders of the mainstream |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Violence in literature.
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Space (Architecture) in literature.
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Space and time in literature.
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Personal space in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Personal space in literature
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Space and time in literature
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Space (Architecture) in literature
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Violence in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005022265 |
| ISBN |
9780817382803 |
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0817382801 |
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