Revolutionary Leaves

The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4146-7
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten

Mark Z. Danielewski is routinely hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, and he is celebrated by critics and fans alike. Revolutionary Leaves collects essays that have come out of the first academic conference on Danielewski’s fiction that took place in Munich in 2011, which brought together younger and established scholars to discuss his works from a variety of perspectives.

Addressing his major works House of Leaves (2000) and Only Revolutions (2006), the texts are as multifaceted as the novels they analyze, and they incorporate ideas of (post)structuralism, modernism, post- and post-postmodernism, philosophy, Marxism, reader-response criticism, mathematics and physics, politics, media studies, science fiction, gothic horror, poetic theory, history, architecture, mythology, and more.

Contributors:

Nathalie Aghoro, Ridvan Askin, Hanjo Berressem, Aleksandra Bida, Brianne Bilsky, Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Julius Greve, Sebastian Huber, Sascha Pöhlmann, and Hans-Peter Söder.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pöhlmann, Sascha

Über Autor(innen)

Pöhlmann, Sascha
Sascha Pöhlmann is a Lecturer in American Literary History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. He received his PhD from LMU Munich in 2008 with a dissertation on “Pynchon’s Postnational Imagination” (Heidelberg: Winter, 2010), and he is currently working on a project entitled “Future-Founding Poetry: Topographies of Beginnings from Whitman to the 21st Century.” He organized the “Revolutionary Leaves” conference with Hans-Peter Söder in 2011.

Sascha Pöhlmann is a Lecturer in American Literary History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. He received his PhD from LMU Munich in 2008 with a dissertation on “Pynchon’s Postnational Imagination” (Heidelberg: Winter, 2010), and he is currently working on a project entitled “Future-Founding Poetry: Topographies of Beginnings from Whitman to the 21st Century.” He organized the “Revolutionary Leaves” conference with Hans-Peter Söder in 2011.