“Only the Conversation Matters”

From Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) to The Echo Maker (2006), American novelist Richard Powers explores the effects of modern science and technology on human lives. He teaches in the Creative Writing M.F.A. program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was elected a Fe...

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Autore principale: Pellegrin, Jean-Yves
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Français
Pubblicazione: European journal of American studies 2007
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:From Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) to The Echo Maker (2006), American novelist Richard Powers explores the effects of modern science and technology on human lives. He teaches in the Creative Writing M.F.A. program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellow (1989) and is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award (1999).Jean-Yves Pellegrin is Associate Profess...