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Presents the psycho-social complexes that drive the fictional characters' sense of selfhood in the works of Banks, Johnson and Crews.

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Author:   David Buehrer
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773400603

ISBN 10:   0773400605
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Daniel Royot; Preface; Acknowledgements and Permissions; I. Introduction: On New Realisms and Why Class Matters to the Fiction of banks, Johnson, and Crews; A. Review of Literature; 1. Critical studies specific to Banks, Johnson, and Crews; 2. General critical studies / debate over new realisms:; B. State of the Question / Problem: A Matter of Form, a Question of Class; 1. On nixing the neo- (and other adjectival realisms); 2. On adding class (the elided middle); C. Thesis / Solution to Problem: Realism, Class Consciousness, Neo-Humanism; D. Methodology of Argument; E. On Primary / Secondary Sources Used to Prove Argument's Validity; II. Russell Banks and the Psychological Burdens of Class: Affliction and The Angel on the Roof; A. Banks and the Role of Class Affliction ; 1. Critics on Affliction; 2. Banks Against the Postmodern Grain; 3. Naturalism and Class Determinism in Affliction; 4. Narrative, Memory, and Mourning: Rolfe as Witness; 5. From Naturalism to New Humanism; B. When The Child Screams and Looks back at You : The Psychology of Class in The Angel on the Roof ; 1. Bio-Critical Links: Class & Environment in Angel; 2. Mothers, Sons, Class: The Child Screams and Looks Back at You ; 3. Fathers, Sons, Class: The Burden ; 4. Sympathy, if not Redemption, for the Working-Class; III. Denis Johnson's Psychological paradoxes: Class and the Quest for Identity in Resuscitation of a Hanged Man and Tree of Smoke; A. The Institutional Man as Knights of Faith : Resuscitation of a Hanged Man; 1. Work and Psychological Breakdown in Resuscitation; 2. Religion and Resuscitating the Human; 3. Belief as Delusion: Institutionalization as Re-humanization; B. No Direction Home: Class Determinism and the Vietnam War Narrative Revisited in Tree of Smoke ; 1. Apocalypse, Now and Again; 2. Vietnam Narratives Redux; AND MORE.

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"""David Buehrer's seminal study constitutes a brilliant aggiornamento after decades of dogmatic literary theory born of postmodern experimental fiction. His critique of banks, Johnson, and Crews offers a welcome return to fundamentals, while updating such notions as realism, naturalism, and humanism...Buehrer has achieved a study of considerable strength to determine the significance of a new trend in American literature."" (Professor Emeritus Daniel Royot, University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle) ""Perhaps the most important contribution of this study is that it makes the reader want to discover these authors. Dave successfully makes the case that the works of Banks, Johnson, and Crews deserve more critical attention, and his book is an important step in not only remedying the critical neglect of these authors but also in inspiring further scholarly analyses."" (Professor Karen J. Jacobsen, Davenport University)"""

David Buehrer's seminal study constitutes a brilliant aggiornamento after decades of dogmatic literary theory born of postmodern experimental fiction. His critique of banks, Johnson, and Crews offers a welcome return to fundamentals, while updating such notions as realism, naturalism, and humanism...Buehrer has achieved a study of considerable strength to determine the significance of a new trend in American literature. (Professor Emeritus Daniel Royot, University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle) Perhaps the most important contribution of this study is that it makes the reader want to discover these authors. Dave successfully makes the case that the works of Banks, Johnson, and Crews deserve more critical attention, and his book is an important step in not only remedying the critical neglect of these authors but also in inspiring further scholarly analyses. (Professor Karen J. Jacobsen, Davenport University)

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