A01=Joseph Dewey
Author_Joseph Dewey
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Fabulation
Fiction
Galatea 2.2
His Family
Loneliness
Mark Twain
Melodrama
Narrative
Novel
Operation Wandering Soul (novel)
Player Piano (novel)
Plowing the Dark
Prisoner's dilemma
Richard Powers
The Dead Father
The Gold Bug Variations
William Styron
Product details
- ISBN 9781570037849
- Weight: 231g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2008
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a critical survey of works by a writer torn between Emersonian engagement and Dickinsonesque withdrawal.""Understanding Richard Powers"" presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey contends that while Powers' novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson - the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination.Through an overview of Powers' career and close readings of his novels, which include ""Galatea 2.2"", ""Prisoner's Dilemma"", ""The Gold Bug Variations"", ""Operation Wandering Soul"", ""Gain"", and ""Plowing the Dark"", Dewey places Powers in context as a major voice in the first generation born entirely within the era of television and the computer and shows us how Powers reminds his readers that we have never been so connected and yet never quite so alone.
An associate professor of American literature at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Joseph Dewey is the author of Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo, Novels from Reagan's America: A New Realism, and In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age.
