Seven Contemporary Authors : Essays on Cozzens, Miller, West, Golding, Heller, Albee, and Powers /

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These seven critical essays, each on a twentieth-century novelist, are disparate in content, but all are concerned with the problem of evil and inhumanity and with the paradoxes of human existence. Each essay discusses a different author, but this independence of subject is resolved into a central t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Abrahams, Roger D. (Contribuidor), Clark, George (Contribuidor), Friedman, Alan (Contribuidor), Hilfer, Anthony Channell (Contribuidor), Lewis, R. W. (Contribuidor), Ramsey, Vance (Contribuidor), Twombly, Robert G. (Contribuidor), Whitbread, Thomas B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
Temas:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • The Conflicts of Reality: Cozzens' The Last Adam
  • The Pitching of Love's Mansion in the Tropics of Henry Miller
  • Androgynes Bound: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts
  • An Illiberal Education: William Golding's Pedagogy
  • From Here to Absurdity: Heller's Catch-22
  • George and Martha: Sad, Sad, Sad
  • Hubris, Health, and Holiness: The Despair of J. F. Powers
  • Index

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