Bücher von Neil Campbell

Short stories and flash fictions inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. Works in the tradition of American greats of the short story like Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford, but also embraces flash fiction. A multiplicity of short fiction styles.

With both economy and compassion, Neil Campbell creates lyrical visions of loss and confinement. Children, teenagers, parents, single men and women all feature in the unflinching depictions of ordinary people coping with the difficulties of everyday life.

An interdisciplinary introduction to American culture for those taking American studies courses or modules, this textbook introduces the full range and variety of American culture from race to religion, gender to youth, and business to foreign policy.

Affective Critical Regionality offers a new approach to developing a sharper, more nuanced understanding of the relations between place, space, memory and affect. It builds on the author's extensive work on the American West, where he developed the idea of ';expanded critical regionalism' to underline the West as multiple, dynamic and relational; engaged in global / local processes, tensions between the rooted and the routed, and increasingly as relevant to debates around the politics of precarity and vulnerability. This book uses affective critical regionality to enable a re-valuing of the local as a powerful means to appreciate the everyday and the over-looked as vital elements within a more inclusive understanding of how we live. Exploring a variety of cultural materials including fiction, memoir, theory, poetry and film it demonstrates how this approach can deepen our understanding of, and simultaneously provoke new relations with, place. Moving beyond the US context through its use of international theoretical voices and texts, it will show how the concept is applicable to other cultural spheres.