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  1. California and the melancholic American identity in Joan Didion's novels
    exiled from Eden
    Author: Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York ; London

    "California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels: Exiled from Eden focuses on the concept of Californian identity in the fiction of Joan Didion. This identity is understood as melancholic, in the sense that the critics... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Trier
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    T.DI35.2/np50899
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    "California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels: Exiled from Eden focuses on the concept of Californian identity in the fiction of Joan Didion. This identity is understood as melancholic, in the sense that the critics following the tradition of both Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin use the word. The book traces the progress of the way Californian identity is portrayed in Joan Didion's novels, starting with the first two in which California plays the central role, Run River and Play It As It Lays, through A Book of Common Prayer to Democracy and The Last Thing He Wanted, where California functions only as a distant point of reference, receding to the background of Didion's interests. Curiously enough, Didion presents Californian history as a history of white settlement, disregarding whole chapters of the history of the region in which the Californios and Native Americans, among other groups, played a crucial role: it is this reticence that the monograph sees as the main problem of Didion's fiction and presents it as the silent center of gravity in Didion's oeuvre. The monograph proposes to see the melancholy expressed by Didion's fiction organized into four losses: of Nature, History, Ethics, and Language; around which the main analytical chapters are constructed. What remains unrepresented and silenced comes back to haunt Didion's fiction, and it results in a melancholic portrayal of California and its identity - which is the central theme this monograph addresses" --

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781138370418
    Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
    Subjects: Roman; Kulturelle Identität <Motiv>; Kalifornien <Motiv>; USA <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Didion, Joan (1934-2021); Didion, Joan / Criticism and interpretation; Melancholy in literature; California / In literature
    Scope: x, 201 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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  2. California and the melancholic American identity in Joan Didion's novels
    exiled from Eden
    Author: Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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  3. The California gothic in fiction and film
    Author: Murphy, Bernice M.
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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  4. O California!
    nineteenth and early twentieth century California landscapes and observations
    Contributor: Vincent, Stephen (Publisher); Starr, Kevin
    Published: [1992]
    Publisher:  Chronicle Books, San Francisco

    Location:
    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
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    Contributor: Vincent, Stephen (Publisher); Starr, Kevin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0938491202
    Edition: Second printing
    Subjects: Landschaftsmalerei; Kalifornien <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Landscapes / California; Authors, American / Travel / California; California / In art; California / Description and travel; California / In literature; Authors, American / Travel; Landscapes; Literature; Travel; California; Art
    Scope: XXVII, 271 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, 31 cm
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    Reprint. Originally published: Bedford Arts, ©1990
  5. California and the melancholic American identity in Joan Didion's novels
    exiled from Eden
    Author: Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York ; London

    Location:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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  6. Reading for liberalism
    the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West
    Author: Mexal, Stephen J.
    Published: ©2013
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0803245599; 9780803245594
    Subjects: American literature / 19th century / History and criticism; American literature / California / History and criticism; California / In literature; Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868); Politics and literature / United States; West (U.S.) / In literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868); American literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Liberalism in literature; Literature; Politics and literature; Literatur; American literature; Liberalism in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Politics and literature; American literature; Liberalismus <Motiv>; USA <Motiv>; Zeitschrift; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 301 pages)
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    Founded in 1868, the Overland Monthly was a San Francisco-based literary magazine whose mix of humor, pathos, and romantic nostalgia for a lost frontier was an immediate sensation on the East Coast. Due in part to a regional desire to attract settlers and financial investment, the essays and short fiction published in the Overland Monthly often portrayed the American West as a civilized evolution of, and not a savage regression from, eastern bourgeois modernity and democracy. Stories about the American West have for centuries been integral to the way we imagine freedom

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: liberalism and the language of wilderness -- Theoria and liberal governmentality: travel in Bret Harte's Overland monthly -- Narrative and liberal selfhood: Noah Brooks and the aesthetics of history -- "With which it was my fortune to be affiliated": social contingency in the life and poetry of Ina Coolbrith -- The limits of liberalism: Chinese, Indians, and the politics of cosmopolitanism in the West -- The greening of nineteenth-century liberalism: John Muir's wilderness and the discourse of civilization -- The brute's luck: liberal egalitarianism and the politics of literary naturalism -- Conclusion: the Overland group, luck, and the writing of the West