Isbn: 9780299153045 - hints and guesses: william gaddis and the longing for an enlarged culture (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Traces d'usure sur la couverture. Petite(s) trace(s) de pliure sur la couverture. Salissures sur la tranche. Edition 1997. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritativ ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Signs of wear on the cover. Slightly creased cover. Stains on the edge. Edition 1997. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - States of Desire Revisited looks back from the twenty-first century at a pivotal moment in the late 1970s: Gay Liberation was a new and flourishing movement of creative culture, political activism, and sexual freedom, just before the 1980s devastation of AIDS. Edmund White traveled America, recording impressions of gay individuals and communities that remain perceptive and captivating today. He noted politicos in D.C. working the system, in-fighting radicals in New York and San Francisco, butch guys in Houston and self-loathing but courteous gentlemen in Memphis, the 'Fifties in Deep Freeze' in Kansas City, progressive thinkers with conservative style in Minneapolis and Portland, wealth and beauty in Los Angeles, and, in Santa Fe, a desert retreat for older gays and lesbians since the 1920s. White frames those past travels with a brief, bracing review of gay America since the 1970s ('now we were all supposed to settle down with a partner in the suburbs and adopt a Korean daughter'), and a reflection on how Internet culture has diminished unique gay places and scenes but brought isolated individuals into a global GLBTQ community.'. …

Zustand: New. A scholarly work which discusses all four Gaddis novels. While he does not dismiss the inclination of many scholars to view Gaddis s work as postmodern, Christopher Knight moves towards a discussion of his significance as a satirist and social theorist, and.