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Zusammenfassung: | "Understanding Jonathan Lethem is a study of the novels, short fiction, and nonfiction on a wide range of subjects in the arts by American novelist Jonathan Lethem, who is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Motherless Brooklyn, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel for Gun, with Occasional Music. Matthew Luter explores the key contemporaries of and influences on Lethem, who is the Roy Edward Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College. Luter begins this volume by explaining how Lethem's innovative and provocative essay on creative appropriation "The Ecstasy of Influence" differs from other writing about influence, suggesting an artistic mode that celebrates thoughtful borrowing. Readings of Lethem's three major novels follow: taken together, Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City present a novelist coming to terms with the joys and downsides of artistic influence. Motherless Brooklyn pays tribute to and subverts traditional hardboiled detective novels as Lethem plays with the conventions of a favorite (and influential) genre. Fortress dwells obsessively on appreciation and criticism of influential art, as Lethem's main character spends a lifetime contemplating the complexities of the art he loves, interrogating his own reactions to it, and thinking through the political implications of the ways he has been influenced by that which he consumes. Chronic City depicts the cost of fandom and the dangers of giving over too much of oneself to the art that one loves, dramatized via a character brought nearly to ruin not by the demands of artistic creation, but by obsessive cultural consumption. Borrowing openly and promiscuously from earlier traditions both high and low (experimental fiction, comic books, art film, detective novels), Lethem displays a career-long interest in questioning what literary originality might mean in a postmodern age. Some suggest that such borrowings indicate a literary well that has run dry, making writers such as Lethem mere patchwork artists. Luter argues instead that Lethem's propensity for wearing his influences and obsessions on his sleeve encourages new thought about originality itself. Out with "it's all been done" and in with "look at all that's been done, and all that we can still do with it!""-- |
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spelling | Luter, Matthew, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015023390 Understanding Jonathan Lethem / Matthew Luter. ©2015 Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2015] 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Understanding contemporary American literature "Understanding Jonathan Lethem is a study of the novels, short fiction, and nonfiction on a wide range of subjects in the arts by American novelist Jonathan Lethem, who is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Motherless Brooklyn, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel for Gun, with Occasional Music. Matthew Luter explores the key contemporaries of and influences on Lethem, who is the Roy Edward Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College. Luter begins this volume by explaining how Lethem's innovative and provocative essay on creative appropriation "The Ecstasy of Influence" differs from other writing about influence, suggesting an artistic mode that celebrates thoughtful borrowing. Readings of Lethem's three major novels follow: taken together, Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City present a novelist coming to terms with the joys and downsides of artistic influence. Motherless Brooklyn pays tribute to and subverts traditional hardboiled detective novels as Lethem plays with the conventions of a favorite (and influential) genre. Fortress dwells obsessively on appreciation and criticism of influential art, as Lethem's main character spends a lifetime contemplating the complexities of the art he loves, interrogating his own reactions to it, and thinking through the political implications of the ways he has been influenced by that which he consumes. Chronic City depicts the cost of fandom and the dangers of giving over too much of oneself to the art that one loves, dramatized via a character brought nearly to ruin not by the demands of artistic creation, but by obsessive cultural consumption. Borrowing openly and promiscuously from earlier traditions both high and low (experimental fiction, comic books, art film, detective novels), Lethem displays a career-long interest in questioning what literary originality might mean in a postmodern age. Some suggest that such borrowings indicate a literary well that has run dry, making writers such as Lethem mere patchwork artists. Luter argues instead that Lethem's propensity for wearing his influences and obsessions on his sleeve encourages new thought about originality itself. Out with "it's all been done" and in with "look at all that's been done, and all that we can still do with it!""-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Cover -- UNDERSTANDING JONATHAN LETHEM -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Understanding Jonathan Lethem -- Chapter 2 Motherless Brooklyn Self-Aware Influence and Stylized Genre -- Chapter 3 The Fortress of Solitude Experience and Interpretation -- Chapter 4 Chronic City: Ecstatic Appreciation and Its Discontents -- Chapter 5 Recent Lethem: The Critic and the Realist -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR. English. Lethem, Jonathan Criticism and interpretation. Lethem, Jonathan fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqQv98mxXFmKYXJtMMwYP Languages & Literatures. American Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh English. hilcc Languages & Literatures. hilcc American Literature. hilcc Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast has work: Understanding Jonathan Lethem (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCG79YmBWwJQdFmKtGv8VFq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Luter, Matthew. Understanding Jonathan Lethem. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2015] 9781611175127 (DLC) 2015010048 (OCoLC)893455814 Understanding contemporary American literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84722061 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=872501 Volltext |
spellingShingle | Luter, Matthew Understanding Jonathan Lethem / Understanding contemporary American literature. Cover -- UNDERSTANDING JONATHAN LETHEM -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Understanding Jonathan Lethem -- Chapter 2 Motherless Brooklyn Self-Aware Influence and Stylized Genre -- Chapter 3 The Fortress of Solitude Experience and Interpretation -- Chapter 4 Chronic City: Ecstatic Appreciation and Its Discontents -- Chapter 5 Recent Lethem: The Critic and the Realist -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Lethem, Jonathan Criticism and interpretation. Lethem, Jonathan fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqQv98mxXFmKYXJtMMwYP English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh English. hilcc Languages & Literatures. hilcc American Literature. hilcc |
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title_full | Understanding Jonathan Lethem / Matthew Luter. |
title_fullStr | Understanding Jonathan Lethem / Matthew Luter. |
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topic | Lethem, Jonathan Criticism and interpretation. Lethem, Jonathan fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqQv98mxXFmKYXJtMMwYP English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh English. hilcc Languages & Literatures. hilcc American Literature. hilcc |
topic_facet | Lethem, Jonathan Criticism and interpretation. Lethem, Jonathan English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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