ISBN:
9781137410245
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 224 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Coughlan, David Ghost writing in contemporary American fiction
Keywords:
Literature
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Literature Philosophy
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Literature, Modern 20th century
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Literature, Modern 21st century
;
America Literatures
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Fiction
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Fiction.
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Literature, Modern—20th century.
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Literature, Modern—21st century.
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America—Literatures.
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Literature—Philosophy.
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USA
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Roman
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Geist
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DeLillo, Don 1936-
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Auster, Paul 1947-
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Roth, Philip 1933-2018
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Robinson, Marilynne 1944-
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Morrison, Toni 1931-2019
Abstract:
This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter—that is, without ghost writing.
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-41024-5
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