Violence in the contemporary American novel : an end to innocence, James R. Giles

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Violence in the contemporary American novel : an end to innocence, James R. Giles

Link

• https://archive.org/details/violenceincontem00gile
• https://openlibrary.org/books/OL530148M

Title remainder

an end to innocence

Statement of responsibility

James R. Giles

Instantiates

• Violence in the contemporary American novel : an end to innocence

Publication

• Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, c2000

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-153) and index

Contents

Preface -- Introduction: Innocence dying younger -- Dedalus in the Dood Kamer: William Kennedy's Quinn's book -- The context of American innocence: Caleb Carr's The alienist -- The Ducky Boys and the urban punk killing machine: Richard Price's The wanderers -- A postmodern children's crusade: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- Nature despoiled and artificial: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street -- Violence and the immanence of the "thing unknown": Cormac McCarthy's Suttree -- Redemptive landscape, malevolent city: Scott Momaday's House made of dawn -- Discovering a substitute for salvation: John Rechy's The miraculous day of Amalia Gómez -- Conclusion: Girl X and the country of last things -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Extent

1 online resource (xiii, 161 pages)

Form of item

online

Record ID

violenceincontem00gile

Specific material designation

remote

System control number

(OCoLC)1036913392