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Soothing Satire
- Author(s):
- Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
- Date:
- 2006
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Canadian
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Twentieth century, Canadian literature, Generation X
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- douglas coupland, 20th-century American literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/bs3n-fv94
- Abstract:
- Explores Douglas Coupland's "Generation X" as almost a Gen Xer's "version of John Updike's Couples"; that is, as, a place where, like Updike's book, friends create a community isolated only to themselves. Though unlike Updike's work, where -- considering the time it was written in, the '70s, where a generation succeeded in overtly contesting and bypassing their parents -- Coupland's ideal community is cloaked to appear its opposite, so mutual nurturance, challenge, narcissistic-in-a-good-way growth, has its full chance to incur within constituents.
- Notes:
- MA graduate paper.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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