Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction

by David Coughlan

Book Overview

This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan's innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113741023X
• ISBN13: 9781137410238
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.5"