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... as national and transnational “sites of contestation.” To develop this line of thinking, Wilhite offers Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001) and Chang-rae Lee’s Aloft (2004) as case studies for his broader claims about region and the spatial effects of residential sprawl and suburban domesticity. Franzen...

... argue that, metafictionally, they also represent undervalued and “easily [dis]missed” female readers and writers. For example, after declining Oprah Winfrey’s invitation to be included in the Oprah Book Club, Jonathan Franzen ( 2001 ) expressed dissatisfaction with the idea of writing...

... This study surveys Franzen’s fiction, integrating critical readings of its formal and ideological aspects, including the phenomenon of authorial metanarrative. Hidalga pays particular attention to the rhetorical strategy of self-justification and salvation narratives in Franzen’s novels...

... in an experimental countertradition. Smith’s study pairs works employing personal and impersonal approaches to paternity, 9/11, self-making, and ecology. In the overly familiar emotional column, she places Jonathan Franzen, Cormac McCarthy, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, and Lydia Millet; in the experimental...

...- keeping and Toni Morrison’s Beloved to examples of domestic masculinity in the suburban novels of John Edgar Wideman, Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, and Andre Dubus III and of queer domesticity produced by Jonathan Franzen, Michael Cunningham, and Chang-rae Lee. (Jacobson also includes a long list...

... concluding (and excellent) account of Jonathan Franzen’s ambivalence about having The Corrections selected for Oprah Winfrey’s book club in 2001 is a case in point. Brier argues that Franzen’s attempt to “affirm his artistry by announcing his distance from the world of commerce” would have had...

... be subsumed within the technological and demo- graphic shifts that network television is said to exemplify? Brier’s concluding (and excellent) account of Jonathan Franzen’s ambivalence about having The Corrections selected for Oprah Winfrey’s book club in 2001 is a case in point. Brier argues...

... denotes a “singular” mass culture (2). Can, say, radio, movies, mass-­market paperbacks, comic books, and so on all be subsumed within the technological and demo- graphic shifts that network television is said to exemplify? Brier’s concluding (and excellent) account of Jonathan Franzen’s...

... denotes a “singular” mass culture (2). Can, say, radio, movies, mass-­market paperbacks, comic books, and so on all be subsumed within the technological and demo- graphic shifts that network television is said to exemplify? Brier’s concluding (and excellent) account of Jonathan Franzen’s...

... be subsumed within the technological and demo- graphic shifts that network television is said to exemplify? Brier’s concluding (and excellent) account of Jonathan Franzen’s ambivalence about having The Corrections selected for Oprah Winfrey’s book club in 2001 is a case in point. Brier argues...

... be subsumed within the technological and demo- graphic shifts that network television is said to exemplify? Brier’s concluding (and excellent) account of Jonathan Franzen’s ambivalence about having The Corrections selected for Oprah Winfrey’s book club in 2001 is a case in point. Brier argues...

... denotes a “singular” mass culture (2). Can, say, radio, movies, mass-­market paperbacks, comic books, and so on all be subsumed within the technological and demo- graphic shifts that network television is said to exemplify? Brier’s concluding (and excellent) account of Jonathan Franzen’s...

... be subsumed within the technological and demo- graphic shifts that network television is said to exemplify? Brier’s concluding (and excellent) account of Jonathan Franzen’s ambivalence about having The Corrections selected for Oprah Winfrey’s book club in 2001 is a case in point. Brier argues...

... fiction by Jonathan Franzen, Paul Auster, Ethan Canin, John Updike, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, Anne Tyler, and Jane Smiley, arguing that aging is just as much a preoccupation for men as for women. Aging Masculinity in the American Novel . By Alex Hobbs. Lanham, MD...

... in autobiographical writings. His study provides cultural, neurobiological, and literary perspectives on the autobiographies of Jonathan Franzen, Mary Karr, and, infamously, James Frey. In addition, Eakin shows that the intersections among the somatic, the cultural, and the cogni- tive are central to notions...

..., the book interprets Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2003); Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), and Paradise (1998); Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North (2009); and Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues (1995). Toward Diversity and Emancipation: (Re-)Narrating Space...

... Wharton, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jonathan Franzen. This book will interest scholars working in the fields of thing theory, object studies, and actor-network theory. Fictions Inc.: The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture. By Ralph Clare. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ...

... small if one did not get the lesson of the master. Also, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections is mis- dated as 2002 instead of 2001, a significant error for those who lived through the aftershocks of 9/11 with the book. Collins, of course, admired Franzen’s pullout on Oprah’s show, but Franzen...

... not get the lesson of the master. Also, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections is mis- dated as 2002 instead of 2001, a significant error for those who lived through the aftershocks of 9/11 with the book. Collins, of course, admired Franzen’s pullout on Oprah’s show, but Franzen and Oprah later made...

... late masterpiece The Wings of the Dove (1902) as the Wings of a Dove, a matter that would only seem small if one did not get the lesson of the master. Also, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections is mis- dated as 2002 instead of 2001, a significant error for those who lived through...