The Absurd Hero in American Fiction : Updike, Styron, Bellow, Salinger /
When The Absurd Hero in American Fiction was first released in 1966, Granville Hicks praised it in a lead article for the Saturday Review as a sensitive and definitive study of a new trend in postwar American literature. In the years that followed, David Galloway's analysis of the writings of J...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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Edición: | Second revised edition |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND REVISED EDITION
- Introduction
- 1. The Myth of the Absurd
- 2. The Absurd Man as Saint
- 4. The Absurd Man as Picaro
- 5. The Love Ethic
- 6. Epilogue
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX