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Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo: Narratives of Everyday Justice by Jason S. Polley (Hardcover, 2011)
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The novels of Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo propose new readings of justice in contemporary American literature. Jason S. Polley argues that such distinctive writers as Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo reconfigure what he calls acts of justice in various modalities and spaces. These authors re-conceptualize justice in their portrayals of peripheral groups, such as women, minorities, and outcasts. In lieu of fictionalizing justice in conventional courtrooms, these writers' narratives make a virtue of representing the undetermined and everyday presence of justice. As a result, Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo succeed in demonstrating the ordinariness of personal concerns with justice. Loosely tracing a legacy of justice in American literature, this book also compares contemporary American narratives to canonized earlier American novels, such as Melville's Moby Dick, James's The Bostonians, and Norris's McTeague. The book likewise examines contemporary writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison. Polley concludes by observing that justice in contemporary American life is not about closure, but is an open-ended practice of human action, a theory that corresponds to postmodern theories of narrative.Product Identifiers
PublisherPeter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-139781433112942
eBay Product ID (ePID)113819454
Product Key Features
Number of Pages263 Pages
Publication NameJane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don Delillo: Narratives of Everyday Justice
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEngineering & Technology, Social Sciences, Computer Science
Publication Year2011
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaRegional History
AuthorJason S. Polley
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height230 mm
Item Weight500 g
Item Width160 mm
Volume60
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorJason S. Polley
Series TitleModern American Literature
TopicLiterature
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