Wilderness City : The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Clontz, Ted

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Publisher's Synopsis

The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of literature and culture that make up the U.S. are more generally found, using the theories and concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his concept of the chronotope , or spacetime .

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Book information

ISBN:	9780415803076
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	11 Jun 2009
Edition:	1st edition
DEWEY:	813.5409321732
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	170
Weight:	330g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	10mm