Postmodernism - Literary Movements, 20th Century American Literature - Post WWII - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - U.S. Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
John Hawkes, an anomalous postmodernist, has been uneasily grouped with John Fowles, Thomas Pynchon, and Julio Cortázar, but his works are more often examined alone. Primarily surveys, studies of Hawkes's works tend to become catalogues of the grotesque, the perverse, and the taboo. As a means of navigating Hawkesian texts of fragments, gaps, and split narrators, this study provides a new theoretical approach that combines psychoanalytic thought and gendered narratology. It identifies and examines structures of deformation-deformation of vision, affect, and subjugation in Hawkes's highly stylized and self-conscious first-person narratives.Editorials
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Provides a new approach to the work of John Hawkes, one that combines psychoanalytic thought and gendered narratology. Whelan (American Studies, Tufts U.) identifies and examines structures of deformation of vision, affect, and subjugation in Hawkes's highly stylized and self-conscious first-person narratives. Topics include the dream narrative in Death, Sleep & The Traveler, the artistry of murder and the victimized muse in Travesty, and autobiography as exhibitionism in Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
December 1, 1998
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c1998
Pages
199
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820436579