the temporal turn in contemporary American fiction /
Hikaru Fujii
xv, 140 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Journey to the end of the father: Battlefield of masculinity in the Mosquito Coast -- The American traveler's love and solitude: The atlas, or William T. Vollmann's Pragmatics of the double -- Nietzsche, crime fiction, and question of masculinity in Denis Johnson's Already dead: a California gothic -- Where the tide rises and ebbs: Power, becoming, and America in Steve Erickson's Rubicon Beach -- A man with a green memory: War, cinema, and freedom in Stephen Wright's Meditations in green -- Time and again: The outside and the narrative pragmatics in The body artist WWDD (What Would Disney Do)?: Cinematic field and narrative act in Richard Powers's Prisoner's dilemma -- Writing from a different now: Question of ahistorical time in contemporary Los Angeles fiction