Bøker av David Cowart

Increasingly, literary texts have attached themselves to their sources in seemingly parasitic--but, more accurately, symbiotic--dependence. It is this kind of mutuality that Cowart examines in his wide-ranging and richly provocative study.

Offers illuminating readings of several important novelists now at the height of their powers, whose work has received fairly limited scholarly attention thus far. Wrestling with the challenges inherent to distinguishing generational character, Cowart teases out interactions and entanglements that help illuminate the work of the younger writers at the centre of this study.

Cowart argues that Pynchon has always understood the facticity of historical narrative and the historicity of storytelling--not to mention the relations of both story and history to myth. He offers a deft analysis of the problems of history as engaged by Pynchon and argues for the continuity of his historical vision.

Discussing Don DeLillo's 13 novels, including ""Cosmopolis"", David Cowart here explores the ways in which DeLillo's art anticipates, parallels and contests ideas that have become the common currency of post-structuralist theory.