American Revenge Narratives A Collection of Critical Essays /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wiggins, Kyle (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: United States-Study and teaching.; Popular Culture.; Motion pictures-United States.; America-Literatures.; Communication.; American Culture.; Popular Culture .; American Cinema and TV.; North American Literature.; Media and Communication.

American Revenge Narratives critically examines the nation's vengeful storytelling tradition. With essays on late twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, film, and television, it maps the coordinates of the revenge genre's contemporary reinvention across American culture. By surveying...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction - Kyle Wiggins
• 2. Wakening "The Eyes of Dreamers": Revenge in Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Café - Lisa Hoffman-Reyes
• 3. Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Tragedy of Revenge and Reparation - Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
• 4. Masculinity in Don DeLilllo's White Noise: Mapping the Self, Killing the Other - Michael James Rizza
• 5. From Revenge to Restorative Justice in Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves, The Round House, and LaRose - Seema Kurup
• 6. The Great (White) Wail: Percival Everett's The Water Cure and Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia - Beth A. McCoy
• 7. The Modern American Revenge Story - Kyle Wiggins
• 8. "What if nature were trying to get back at us?": Animals as Agents of Nature's Revenge in Horror Cinema - Michael Fuchs
• 9. A Cinema of Vengeance: Vietnam Veterans, Traumatic Recovery, and Historical Revisionism in 1980s Hollywood - Marc Diefenderfer
• 10. Vengeance is Mine: Gender and Vigilante Justice in Mainstream Cinema - Paul Doro
• 11. "Revenge, at first though sweet, / Bitter ere long back on itself recoils:" Patriarchy and Revenge in Unforgiven and True Grit - Jim Daems
• 12. Tearing Down the Eiffel Tower: Post-9/11 Fears and Fantasies in Taken - Terence McSweeney.