Under Fire: William T. Vollmann, The Rifles: A Critical Study

By Françoise Palleau-Papin

Book Overview

This critical study offers a port of entry into Vollmann's fiction. The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel, and the venture of the 19th-century English explorer John Franklin, revisiting the Gothic genre. This analysis uses close-reading, ecocriticism, and comparative literature to examine a major novel of the post-postmodern canon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034320949
• ISBN13: 9783034320948
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"