Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Chronology xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1 ‘The space reserved for irony’: Irony and Paradox in Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Paul Auster’s City of Glass and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho 18
8. Chapter 2 Silence, Secrecy and Sexuality: ‘Alternate 61
9. Chapter 3 ‘Nes and Yo’: Race, Ethnicity and Hybridity in Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land, Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and Richard Powers’ 107
10. Chapter 4 Contemporary American Fiction Goes to Hollywood: Genre in the Texts and Films of Cold Mountain, Brokeback Mountain and No Country for Old Men 158
11. Conclusion 206
12. Student Resources 211
13. Index 231