Konstantinou The Last Samurai Reread

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-54635-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Rereadings

Lee Konstantinou combines a riveting reading of The Last Samurai with a behind-the-scenes look at Helen DeWitt’s fraught experiences with corporate publishing. He shows how interpreting the ambition and richness of DeWitt’s work in light of her struggles with literary institutions provides a potent social critique.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Konstantinou, Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Last Samurai, Unread
1. A Little Potboiler
2. Helen DeWitt’s Aesthetic Education
3. Synergy Is Crap
4. Fuck The Chicago Manual of Style
5. The Best Book of the Forty-Fifth Century
Coda: Through a Hole in the Wall
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Konstantinou is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland. His books include the novel Pop Apocalypse (2009) and the literary history Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (2016).