| 书目名称 | Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature | | 编辑 | Lovorka Gruic Grmusa,Biljana Oklopcic | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Presents a comprehensive study of memory and identity in modern and postmodern American literature.Offers an innovative reading of the masterpieces of modern and postmodern American literature.Feature | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book discusses how American literary modernism and postmodernism interconnect memory and identity and if, and how, the intertwining of memory and identity has been related to the dominant socio-cultural trends in the United States or the specific historical contexts in the world. The book’s opening chapter is the interrogation of the narrator’s memories of Jay Gatsby and his life in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s .The Great Gatsby.. The second chapter shows how in William Faulkner’s .Light in August. memory impacts the search for identities in the storylines of the characters. The third chapter discusses the correlation between memory, self, and culture in Tennessee Williams’s .A Streetcar Named Desire.. Discussing Robert Coover’s .Gerald’s Party., the fourth chapter reveals that memory and identity are contextualized and that cognitive processes, including memory, are grounded in the body’s interaction with the environment, featuring dehumanized characters, whose identities appear as role-plays. The subsequent chapter is the analysis of how Jonathan Safran Foer’s .Everything Is Illuminated. deals with the heritage of Holocaust memories and postmemories. The last chapter focuses on Th | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | Memory and identity; Memory and identity in modern American literature; Memory and identity in postmod | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5025-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-981-19-5027-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-981-19-5025-4 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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