Some of the hottest writers of the 90's shared a subversive aesthetic sensibility, ""avant-pop,"" that drew on the forms, images, slogans, characters, and narrative archetypes of our multidimensional, information-dense culture-cartoons, films, music videos, advertising, and rock music-to explore and critically examine that culture.
Each of these thirty-two works delves into the deeper metaphorical implications of this pop cultural imagery to convey a turn toward overstimulation and hyper-consumption in American life, and to explore issues of personality and identity. This provocative, stylistically experimental work is truly literature for the twenty-first century.
Edited by:
Larry McCaffery, Larry McCaffery Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 196mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 289g ISBN:9780140240856 ISBN 10: 0140240853 Pages: 384 Publication Date:01 August 1995 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
