{"product_id":"understanding-richard-powers-paperback-1","title":"Understanding Richard Powers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Dewey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA critical survey of works by a writer torn between Emersonian engagement and Dickinsonesque withdrawal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Richard Powers\u003c\/i\u003e presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey contends that while Powers's novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson--the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough an overview of Powers's career and close readings of his novels, which include \u003ci\u003eGalatea 2.2, Prisoner's Dilemma, The Gold Bug Variations, Operation Wandering Soul, Gain, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePlowing the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, Dewey places Powers in context as a major voice in the first generation born entirely within the era of television and the computer and shows us how Powers reminds his readers that we have never been so connected and yet never quite so alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn associate professor of American literature at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, \u003cb\u003eJoseph Dewey\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo, Novels from Reagan's America: A New Realism, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335792378105,"sku":"9781570037849","price":37.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SC9CNE11Nm9XYmEvQmdVclpDYWlYZz09_3b20ae4f-3fcf-4cf8-8ce0-e1fff7a80cd2.webp?v=1769663682","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/understanding-richard-powers-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}