Wilderness City: The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman

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ISBN10: 0415803071
ISBN13: 9780415803076
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 16 2009
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of literature and culture that make up the U.S. are more generally found, using the theories and concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his concept of the chronotope, or spacetime .

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