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Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011
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44,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 20.09.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781793647245 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 294 |
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<p><span>Can rock music help us understand literature? </span><span>Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011</span><span> argues that a close analysis of the rock music incorporated into a literary text–an investigation of the lyrics, a musicological exploration of the sounds and rhythms, a cultural-historical inquiry into the production and reception of a song–may yield exciting new insight into and expand our understanding of American literary production from the mid-20th century onwards. Reading major works by Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Don DeLillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sherman Alexie and Jennifer Egan from such a rock-musicological vantage point, </span><span>Rock Music in American Fiction Writing</span><span> adds a new dimension to recent work in American literary criticism by seeking to establish rock music as an analytical tool for literary investigation. The book concentrates on the way these literary artists have struggled to come to terms with the dichotomies inherent in rock music–its liberating and revolutionary impulses as well as its adherence to the bleakest laws of consumer capitalism–in their work. By combining a musicological with a literary analysis, </span><span>Rock Music in American Fiction Writing</span><span> highlights the crucial and complex role rock music has played in shaping the artistic outlook and cultural sensibilities of literary artists since the 1960s in America and beyond. </span></p>
<p><span>Rock Music in American Fiction Writing, 1966-2011 </span><span>explores rock music and literature through the works of a diverse set of American writers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book foregrounds how popular music has inspired and transformed American literary production at the crossroads between modernism and postmodernism.</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 1: ‘How Does it Feel?’: Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Rock Music’s Liberating Potential in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” and Alice Walker’s “Nineteen Fifty-Five”</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2: ‘Renaissance on Main Street’: Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and the Discovery of a New Language in Don DeLillo’s </span><span>Great Jones Street</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3: ‘You Don’t Own Me’: Girl-Group Rock and the Subversion of the Male Gaze in Jeffrey Eugenides’s </span><span>The Virgin Suicides</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4: ‘Anarchy on the Rez’: The Blues, Colonial Resistance and the Negotiation of a Native-American Identity in Sherman Alexie’s </span><span>Reservation Blues</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5: ‘No Future’: Time, Punk Rock and Jennifer Egan’s </span><span>A Visit from the Goon Squad</span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion: And In the End… </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2: ‘Renaissance on Main Street’: Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and the Discovery of a New Language in Don DeLillo’s </span><span>Great Jones Street</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3: ‘You Don’t Own Me’: Girl-Group Rock and the Subversion of the Male Gaze in Jeffrey Eugenides’s </span><span>The Virgin Suicides</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4: ‘Anarchy on the Rez’: The Blues, Colonial Resistance and the Negotiation of a Native-American Identity in Sherman Alexie’s </span><span>Reservation Blues</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5: ‘No Future’: Time, Punk Rock and Jennifer Egan’s </span><span>A Visit from the Goon Squad</span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion: And In the End… </span></p>
<p><span>Martin Moling</span><span> is a lecturer at the Institute of Education at the University of Zurich.</span><span> </span></p>
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