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Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction

Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature

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Explores how popular writers are depicting either utopian and egalitarian alternatives to conventional nuclear families, such as John Irving, Alice Walker, and E. L. Doctorow; or, as with John Updike, representing conventional families as sites of ennui and unhappiness, but showing attempts to flee or reconstruct them as paths to destruction. Annot

Book information

ISBN: 9780820423067
Publisher: P. Lang
Imprint: P. Lang
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.5409355
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 166
Weight: 408g
Height: 241mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 12mm