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  • “‘Normal People’ Indeed!”: Anne Tyler, Sally Rooney, and the Narrative of Youthful Quirk
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  • Review: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

Author Alan Gibbs

Alan Gibbs

Alan Gibbs lectures in American literature at University College Cork, Ireland. His 2014 monograph, Contemporary American Trauma Narratives (Edinburgh University Press) won the Irish Association for American Studies’ 2015 Peggy O’Brien Prize. His current research focuses predominantly on naturalism in contemporary American culture. He has published articles on contemporary naturalist writers including Lionel Shriver and Cormac McCarthy and on TV series including The Wire and The Shield (forthcoming).

Review: Ernst, Matter-Siebel, and Schmidt, eds., Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism

Alan Gibbs
Reviews
Jutta Ernst, Sabina Matter-Siebel, and Klaus H. Schmidt, editors. Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. Using “revisionist” in the title of a text is som... Read More...
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