Jerry A Varsava
Biographic Data
| ID | 1503764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerry A Varsava |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerry A |
| FAMILY NAME | Varsava |
| SIGNATURE | VARSAVA J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Manufacturing crisis under globalisation
Large swaths of homo economicus americanus today confront chronic unemployment or under-employment in a period of tremendous offshoring of the production of goods and services, high consumer debt, static or declining disposable incomes, and shrinking governmental supports, even as large income gains and increasing wealth concentration are enjoyed by the rich and hyper-rich. In recent years, Dave Eggers has authored a number of post-postmodern nov…
Hemingway and French Writers
With Malice toward Quite a Few
Increased scholarly attention is now being paid to the depiction of intercultural relations in American literature across all periods. The books examined in this review article contribute importantly to this body of work, paying particular, though not exclusive, attention to realist fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As Henry Wonham and Mary Esteve demonstrate, we find embedded within realist literary works sometimes bl…
Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern Liberalism
Introduction Thomas Pynchon has written some of America's most imaginative and intellectually suggestive fiction of the postwar period. And, responsive to his work's richness, critical attention has in due course been paid to a myriad of topics he has examined. One important subject, however, has not been ade- quately addressed in Pynchonian scholarship. No sustained effort has been made to see Pynchon's work as embracing a determinate political …
Contingent Meanings
In making case for mimetic function in postmodern fiction, Jerry Varsava evaluates the American reception of postmodern fiction, challenging both the critics who condemn postmodernism as morally pointless and those who celebrate postmodern fiction for its aesthetic alone. He then advances view of mimesis: the reader of fiction, not the writer, establishes the text's reference to the world. Varsava interprets selected postmodern fictions in the se…
Tom Wolfe's Defense of the New (Old) Social Novel; Or, The Perils of the Great White‐Suited Hunter
Walter Abish and the Topographies of Desire
The Realist Fantasy
Törleß at the Limits of Language
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Törleß at the Limits of Language
The Realist Fantasy
Walter Abish and the Topographies of Desire
Tom Wolfe's Defense of the New (Old) Social Novel; Or, The Perils of the Great White‐Suited Hunter
Contingent Meanings
In making case for mimetic function in postmodern fiction, Jerry Varsava evaluates the American reception of postmodern fiction, challenging both the critics who condemn postmodernism as morally pointless and those who celebrate postmodern fiction for its aesthetic alone. He then advances view of mimesis: the reader of fiction, not the writer, establishes the text's reference to the world. Varsava interprets selected postmodern fictions in the se…
Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern Liberalism
Introduction Thomas Pynchon has written some of America's most imaginative and intellectually suggestive fiction of the postwar period. And, responsive to his work's richness, critical attention has in due course been paid to a myriad of topics he has examined. One important subject, however, has not been ade- quately addressed in Pynchonian scholarship. No sustained effort has been made to see Pynchon's work as embracing a determinate political …
With Malice toward Quite a Few
Increased scholarly attention is now being paid to the depiction of intercultural relations in American literature across all periods. The books examined in this review article contribute importantly to this body of work, paying particular, though not exclusive, attention to realist fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As Henry Wonham and Mary Esteve demonstrate, we find embedded within realist literary works sometimes bl…
Hemingway and French Writers
Manufacturing crisis under globalisation
Large swaths of homo economicus americanus today confront chronic unemployment or under-employment in a period of tremendous offshoring of the production of goods and services, high consumer debt, static or declining disposable incomes, and shrinking governmental supports, even as large income gains and increasing wealth concentration are enjoyed by the rich and hyper-rich. In recent years, Dave Eggers has authored a number of post-postmodern nov…
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