Doyle, Roddy, 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1 , 2 , 3
Dublin, 1
Dylan, Bob, 1 , 2 , 3
E
Eggers, Dave, 1
Eisner, Will, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Ellison, Harlan, 1
Elric of Melniboné, 1.1-1.2 , 2
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 1
escape, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
Escapists, The, 1.1-1.2 See also Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
Esperanto, 1 , 2 , 3
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father-son relationships, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
Faulkner, William, 1 , 2
Featherstone, Mike, and Mike Hepworth, 1 , 2
Final Solution, The, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6.1-6.2 , 7 , 8 , 9
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Fleming, Ian, 1
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1
Folklore, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7
Ford LTD, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Fountain City, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5.1-5.2 , 6 , 7
Franzen, Jonathan, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
friendship, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
G
Gaddis, William, 1
Gaiman, Neil, 1
Garner, Alan, 1
Genette, Gérard, 1
Gentlemen of the Road, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6 , 7 , 8.1-8.2 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12
genre, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6 , 7
Gianni, Gary, 1 , 2
graphic novels, 1
Gullette, Margaret Morganroth, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
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Haggard, H. R., 1 , 2 , 3
Hammett, Dashiell, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Hanson, Curtis, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4
Harry Potter, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
HBO, 1 , 2
Hearn, Jeff, 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1
Herbert, Frank, 1
Hess, John Joseph, 1
Hichens, Robert, 1
Hoberek, Andrew, 1
Hollywood, 1
Holmes, Katie, 1
Holocaust, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 See also World War II
homosexuality, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7.1-7.2 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11.1-11.2
Hood, Robin, 1
House Un-American Activities Committee, 1
Howard, Robert E., 1 , 2 , 3
Howe, Irving, 1
Hurricane Katrina, 1 , 2.1-2.2
Huyssen, Andreas, 1
Hyde, Lewis, 1.1-1.2 , 2
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illustration, 1
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“Imaginary Homelands” (essay), 1.1-1.2 , 2
“Independent Comic Book Publishers of the Pre-Independent Era,” 1
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individual identity, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2
intertextuality, 1 , 2.1-2.2
Irving, John, 1
Israel, 1
J
James, P. D., 1 , 2
Jameson, Fredric, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Japtok, Martin, 1
John Carter, 1 , 2 , 3
Joyce, James, 1 , 2 , 3
Judaism and American fiction, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
and heritage, 1
and identity, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9
Jung, Carl, 1 , 2
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Kavadlo, Jesse, 1 , 2
Kazin, Alfred, 1
King, Stephen, 1
Kirby, Jack, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Klein, Melanie, 1
Knight, Stephen, 1 , 2
Kot, Greg, 1
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La Force, Thessaly, 1
Landon, Richard, 1
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“Landsman of the Lost,” 1
L
Lark, Michael, 1
Lebowski, Jeff “the Dude,” 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3.1-3.2 and Homer Simpson, 1
Lebowski, Jeffrey “the Big,” 1.1-1.2
LeClair, Tom, 1
Lee, Stan, 1 , 2 , 3
LeGuin, Ursula, 1 , 2
Lehman, Peter, 1
Lennon, John, 1
Leonard, Elmore, 1
Lessing, Doris, 1
Lethem, Jonathan, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Levine, Andrea, 1
literary elitism, 1
Loew, Rabbi Judah, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
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“Losers’ Club, The,” 1
L
Lost World stories, 1.1-1.2
Lovecraft, H. P., 1 , 2
T
The Love Parade (film), 1 , 2
L
Lowell, Percival, 1
Lucas, George, 1 , 2
M
MacDonalds, the, 1
Maguire, Tobey, 1
Mailer, Norman, 1
Malamud, Bernard, 1 , 2 , 3
Manhood for Amateurs, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14
Maps and Legends, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15.1-15.2
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“Maps and Legends” (essay), 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2
M
Marsh, Ngaio, 1
Martin, George R. R., 1 , 2
masculinity, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 and The Big Lebowski, 1.1-1.2
and heroism, 1.1-1.2
hypermasculinity, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
McBride, Joseph, 1
McCarthy, Cormac, 1
McDormand, Frances, 1
McElroy, Joseph, 1
McSweeney’s, 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5
McTeague, 1
Melville, Herman, 1 , 2
Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 “‘Are You Now or Have You Ever Been . . .,’” 1.1-1.2 , 2.1-2.2
“Arms and the Man I Sing,” 1 , 2.1-2.2
“Escapism 101,” 1
“The Passing of the Key,” 1
See also The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; comics; The Escapists
Miller, Neil, 1
Minnelli, Vincente, 1
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“Mrs. Box,” 1 , 2.1-2.2
M
Model World and Other Stories, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
Moody, Harry R., and Jennifer R. Sasser, 1
Moody, Rick, 1
Moorcock, Michael, 1 , 2 , 3
music, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6
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“My Back Pages,” 1
M
Myers, D. G., 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
My Ideal Bookshelf, 1 , 2
Mysteries of Pittsburgh,The, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6 , 7 , 8.1-8.2 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16
N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 1
Narnia series, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
naturalism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
New York Times, 1
Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, 1
nostalgia, 1 , 2 history of the concept, 1.1-1.2
reflective vs. Restorative nostalgia, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2
See also Boym, Svetlana
O
Obama, Barack, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10.1-10.2 , 11 , 12 , 13.1-13.2 , 14
O’Donnell, Patrick, 1
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“Omega Glory, The,” 1
“On Canseco,” 1
“On Daemons & Dust,” 1
O
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska, 1 , 2
Otis, Harrison Gray, 1
P
Palmer, Jim, 1
paratext, 1
Peake, Mervyn, 1
Pearl Harbor, 1
Peter Pan, 1 , 2
Phillips, Adam, 1.1-1.2
Pittsburgh, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7
Poe, Edgar Allen, 1 , 2 , 3
popular culture, forms, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6.1-6.2 , 7
Porter, Dennis, 1 , 2
postmodernism, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5
Powell, Boog, 1
Priestman, Martin, 1
Proust, Marcel, 1 , 2
> pseudo-places, 1
psychoanalysis, 1.1-1.2
Pulitzer Prize, 1
Pynchon, Thomas, 1 , 2 , 3
Pyrhönen, Heta, 1
Q
quest narratives, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4
“
“Radio Silence,” 1
R
Revolutionary Road, 1
Ribbat, Christoph, 1
Riot Bravo, 1
Rolling Stones, the, 1
Rooke, Constance, 1
Roth, Philip, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Rouse, James, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5
Rush, Tom, 1
Rushdie, Salman, 1.1-1.2
Russ, Joanna, 1
S
Salinger, J. D., 1 , 2
Sayers, Dorothy L., 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5
Schutz, Diana, 1
Scott, A. O., 1
Scott, Tony, 1
Seduction of the Innocent, 1 , 2 , 3
Senate Hearings on Juvenile Delinquency, 1 , 2 , 3
serial publication, 1.1-1.2
Shakespeare, William, 1
Sherlock Holmes, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 See also Arthur Conan Doyle
Shteyngart, Gary, 1
Shuster, Joe, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
Siegel, Jerry, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
Silverberg, Robert, 1
Simpson, O. J., 1 , 2
Singer, Marc, 1.1-1.2
Slattery Report, 1
Snyder, Ruth, 1
Speed, Lancelot, 1
Spider-Man II, 1
Spiegelman, Art, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3
Spillane, Mickey, 1
“
“Splendors of Crap, The,” 1.1-1.2 , 2
S
Star Trek, 1
“
“Strange Case of Mr. Terrific and Doctor Nil, The,” 1.1-1.2
S
Straub, Peter, 1
style, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
Summerland, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
superhero, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 Jewish origins of, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
Superman, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.1-4.2 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12
Synnott, Anthony, 1
T
Tarantino, Quentin, 1.1-1.2 Death Proof, 1 , 2
Django Unchained, 1 , 2 , 3
Inglorious Basterds, 1 , 2
Jackie Brown, 1 , 2 , 3
Kill Bill, Vol. 1, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6 , 7.1-7.2 , 8
Kill Bill, Vol. 2, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
“The Man from Hollywood,” 1 , 2 , 3
Pulp Fiction, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Reservoir Dogs, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3
Tarantino XX, 1
True Romance, 1
Tarzan, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Telegraph Avenue, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6.1-6.2 , 7 , 8.1-8.2 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17.1-17.2
television, 1 , 2 , 3
Tipton, Nathan G., 1
Todorov, Tzvetan, 1
Tolkien, J. R. R., 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9
travel, 1 , 2
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“Trickster in a Suit of Lights” (essay), 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10
T
Tripp, Grady, 1 , 2.1-2.2 as an academic character, 1.1-1.2
Trotter, David, 1
U
Updike, John, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
utopia, 1.1-1.2
V
Vietnam, 1
Virginian, 1
Von Franz, Marie-Louise, 1 , 2 , 3
W
Waldman, Ayelet, 1
Wallace, David Foster, 1 , 2 , 3
Ward, Robert, 1 , 2
Watson, Colin, 1 , 2
Welles, Orson, 1 , 2 , 3
Werewolves in Their Youth, 1 , 2 , 3
Whitehead, Colson, 1
Wight, Eric, 1
Wilson, Edmund, 1
Wizard of Oz, 1
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“Woman of Valor, A,” 1
W
Wonder, Stevie, 1
World War I, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
World War II, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14
Woodward, Kathleen, 1 , 2
Woolf, Virginia, 1
Wolfe, Tom, 1
Wonder Boys, 1 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4.1-4.2 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9.1-9.2 , 10.1-10.2 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14.1-14.2 , 15 and Wonder Boys film, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3 , 4 , 5
workshop fiction, 1.1-1.2
Y
Yates, Richard, 1 , 2
Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.1-5.2 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10.1-10.2 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16
Young, Neil, 1
Z
Zizek, Slovoj, 1
About the Editors and Contributors
Jesse Kavadlo is a professor of English and humanities, writing center director, and university seminar coordinator at Maryville University of St. Louis. He is president of the Don DeLillo Society and the author of Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief (2004), along with articles in Critique, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, the Popular Culture Studies Journal, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, and other journals. Jesse has also written numerous book chapters about contemporary fiction, popular culture, television, and film.
Bob Batchelor is James Pedas Professor of Communication and executive director of the James Pedas Communication Center at Thiel College. A noted cultural historian and biographer, Bob is the author or editor of twenty-six books, including John Updike: A Critical Biography and Gatsby: A Cultural History of the Great American Novel. He edits the Contemporary American Literature book series for Rowman & Littlefield. Bob is the founding editor of the Popular Culture Studies Journal, published by the Midwest Popular Culture Association. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Popular Culture. Bob also serves as director of marketing and media for the John Updike Childhood Home Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania. Visit him on the web at www.bobbatchelor.com.
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Josef Benson is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside. He is the author of Hypermasculinities in Four U.S. American Novels: Cormac McCarthy, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, forthcoming from Rowman & Littlefield.
John Joseph Hess earned his A.B. in English at Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame. His work on contemporary American fiction appears in Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative: Essays on Forms, Series and Genres and Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction.
Alex Hobbs’s current research is concerned with representations of male aging in contemporary American fiction. She has authored articles and chapters on the novels of Philip Roth, John Irving, recent romantic comedies, and masculinity studies. Alex is an associate lecturer at the Open University and production editor for Akademeia journal.
Stephen Hock is an associate professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan College, where he teaches twentieth-century and contemporary American literature. He is the coeditor, with Jeremy Braddock, of Directed by Allen Smithee (2001).
Seth Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate at Kent State University. His dissertation, History, Myth and Secularism across the Borderlands: The Work of Michael Chabon, examines Chabon’s entire body of work with an eye toward his usage and celebration of genre fictions as well as his exploration of the intersection of the secular—Jewish, American Jewish, and unhyphenated American culture—and the sacred. His research interests include twentieth-century American literature, American Jewish literature, and postmodernism, with particular emphasis on religion in the postmodern.
Inbar Kaminsky is a Ph.D. candidate in the English and American Studies Department at Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral thesis examines the alternative to corporeality in contemporary literature. She has published “Jewish Mischief in the Land of Pranks: The Mistranslation of Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock into Hebrew” in Philip Roth Studies and presented papers at numerous conferences, including the Thirty-Second Annual International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Deleuzian Futures International Conference, and the Novel and Theories of Love International Conference.
Matt Kavanagh teaches at Okanagan College in Kelowna, British Columbia. He holds a doctorate in contemporary American literature from McGill University. His current research examines neoliberalism in the contemporary novel, particularly fictional representations of finance in the work of Don DeLillo, John Lanchester, Jonathan Franzen, Aifric Campbell, Alan Glynn, and others. His criticism has appeared in American Book Review, English Studies in Canada, Maisonneuve, the Millions, the Globe and Mail, and other publications.
Monica Lott recently graduated from Kent State University with a doctorate focusing on twentieth-century British detective fiction. Her dissertation, Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie, has yielded publications in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and Unbroken Wings: Collected Papers of the International Conference English Literature Today, Oxford 2008. She is adjunct faculty at Stark State College and the University of Akron. She has also been published in Clues : A Journal of Detection, Steinbeck Review, and Community Literacy Journal.
David McKay Powell received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia, where he wrote his dissertation about depictions of the literary humanities in modern American fiction. He has published essays on the apprentice careers of William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald and the musical inclinations of T. S. Eliot. He teaches at Eastern Kentucky University.
Eric Sandberg received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, and he is currently assistant professor of literature at Miyazaki International College in Japan. He is the author of Virginia Woolf: Experiments in Character (2014) and has published articles on topics ranging from Virgil to Philip Roth.
Jake Sudderth coauthored The St. Ann’s Kid: A Seattle Memoir and authored “Footprints of Freedom: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs and the Pursuit of Equality across North America” in Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politics. He holds an M.A. in history and studied American studies with an emphasis on literature at Columbia University. He is the research director for CTC (City Town County) Urban Studies.
Charli Valdez teaches Latina/Latino Literature, American Literature, and Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of New Hampshire. Recipient of a Fulbright for his dissertation research in Spain, he received his A.M. in comparative literature at Brown University and his Ph.D. in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston. He has presented on Chicana/Chicano culture at the MLA and other conferences and has recently published fiction in the Saranac Review and scholarship in Film and Literary Modernism and The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture.
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