Research Catalog

Title

When the kissing had to stop : cult studs, khmer newts, Langley spooks, techno-Greeks, video drones, author gods, serial killer, vampire media, alien sperm-suckers, satanic therapists, and those of us who hold a left-wing grudge in the post toasties new world hip-hop / John Leonard.

Author

Leonard, John, 1939-2008.

Publication

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©1999.

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Details

Description

x, 362 pages; 22 cm

Summary

The sophisticated commentator looks at contemporary literature and pop culture, showing how great novelists can help us find some sense amid the dull roar of tabloids, talk shows, and the Disneyfication of everything.

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• American literature > History and criticism
• Civilization in literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

Going down with Atlantis. Dreaming the Republic ; Killing the philosophers ; Spooking the Horses of the Apocalypse ; Lolita lights our fire ; Knee-deep in the alien corn ; Tropic of Cancer -- Part two. Falling off the Pacific rim ; DeLillo's AmericanJitters ; Revenge of the poisoned twinkies ; California screaming ; Didion does NAFTA ; Cyberpunk rocks ; Pynchon's crazy age of reason ; Let's hear it for the luddites -- Part three. Mixed media. All the news that gives me fits ; Editors anonymous ; American Cassandra ; Whose television, for which public? -- Part four. American identities. Mary Gordon's Father Runs Away from Home ; Underground Gass; Amazing Grace ; Morrison's Paradise Lost -- Part five. Third worlds. Said's culture and imperialism; Doris Lessing goes back to Africa ; At Oliver Tambo's funeral, 1993 ; Discovering David Grossman ; Meeting David Grossman ; Amos Oz in the desert ; Garcia Marquez, at war on drugs ; Eduardo Galeano walks some words.

ISBN

• 1565845331
• 9781565845336

LCCN

98044584

OCLC

• ocm40135247
• 40135247
• SCSB-797204

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library