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Alison Lurie

By Judith Newman

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Alison Lurie

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Drawing on personal interviews, manuscript collections, and the author's unpublished writings, Judie Newman offers a comprehensive study of the work of Alison Lurie from her early involvement in the Poets' Theatre to the AIDS comedy of her most recent novel, The Last Resort (1988).
In her profound social and intellectual engagement with American Utopianism, from its historical origins through such contemporary manifestations as Walter Benjamin's Hollywood, the American University, feminist theorisations, the religious cult and the gay heterotopia, and in her intertextual reworkings of folk and fairy tale, biography, diary novel, the 'International Theme' and the classic ghost story, Lurie maintains an uncanny ability to serve critical aesthetic purposes within a popular fictional form.
Semiotic comedies - comedies of the sign - rather than novels of manners, Lurie's fictions place her squarely within a radical American tradition.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
220
Release Date:
2000-01-01
Publication Date:
2000-01-01
Publisher:
Brill
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9042012226
ISBN13:
9789042012226
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
327 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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