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Suburban/Absurd: Subjects of Anxiety in the Fiction of John Cheever and Richard Ford.
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posted on 2023-03-14, 23:25 authored by Clark, FionaOne aspect of the common ground between the work of Richard Ford and John Cheever is their careful depiction of domestic life. It was this attention to the middle class suburbs of America that led some of Cheever's contemporary critics to dismiss his work, seeing his subject matter as inappropriate to serious critical enquiry. By altering the terms on which Cheever's work is approached, and reading Cheever's and Ford's suburban fiction in light of some of the tenets of existentialism, post-structuralism, and neo-pragmatism, it is possible to affirm their works as central to contemporary concerns surrounding subjectivity, identity, and agency.
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2009-01-01Date of Award
2009-01-01Publisher
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of WellingtonRights License
Author Retains CopyrightDegree Discipline
EnglishDegree Grantor
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of WellingtonDegree Level
MastersDegree Name
Master of ArtsVictoria University of Wellington Item Type
Awarded Research Masters ThesisLanguage
en_NZVictoria University of Wellington School
School of English, Film, Theatre and Media StudiesAdvisors
Meffan, JamesUsage metrics
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Suburban fictionJohn CheeverRichard FordSchool: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classifiedMarsden: 420206 North American (Literature Studies)Degree Discipline: EnglishDegree Level: MastersDegree Name: Master of ArtsLiterary Studies not elsewhere classified
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