{"product_id":"minimalism-and-affect-in-american-oliver-haslam-9798765109403","title":"Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020\u003c\/i\u003e responds to existing studies of literary minimalism by pursuing three original and interrelated objectives. It provides a more inclusive and precise definition of minimalism that enables further inquiry into the mode. It also exposes the presence of minimalism beyond critical demarcations that attempt to limit the aesthetic to a particular school, medium, movement, form or decade. Finally, it argues that writers of American literary minimalism are uniquely privileged in their ability to formalize precarity and threatening cultural currents into the fragile construct that is ordinary life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Building upon theories of affect and the everyday, \u003ci\u003eMinimalism and Affect in American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, 1970-2020\u003c\/i\u003e analyses minimalist aesthetics within the works of canonical minimalists alongside writers more frequently associated with other movements. Through readings of Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo, among others, and cultural phenomena ranging from sedation to telephony, this book exposes the persistence and political importance of minimalism within American literature from the 20th century into the 21st.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Haslam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798765109403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Oliver Haslam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519992279295,"sku":"9798765109403","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35d575cc-0cee-4cc7-abb4-0e8f00859398.jpg?v=1778740070","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/minimalism-and-affect-in-american-oliver-haslam-9798765109403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}