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This specially commissioned volume of essays offers a refreshing and unusual perspective on classic novels from the American literary canon. Accessible to students, scholars and the interested reader, this engaging collection explores familiar novels through unfamiliar lenses and, in so doing, sheds...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boyle, Elizabeth (Lecturer), Evans, Anne-Marie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
Temas:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Literature & literary studies.
Literary essays.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Roman
USA
Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: The novel in America
  • Henry James's project of the new American Novel / Agnes Zsofia Kovacs
  • "It could have been any street" : Ann Petry, Stephen Crane and the fate of naturalism / Don Dingledine
  • Part II : The novel and politics
  • Truman Capote's 'In cold blood' in the atomic age / Ilse Schrynemakers
  • The space between: Ralph Ellison's politics of space and the reusable past of abolitionist literature / Zoe Trodd
  • Part III: The novel and sexuality
  • Djuna Barnes: sexual prophet of the American novel? / Richard Espley
  • Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita' and free play / Thomas Karshan
  • Intimacy in the radical narratives of Toni Morrison / Stephani Li
  • Showing the fly the way out of the bell-jar: cobbling a philosophy of adolescence in Joyce Carol Oates's 'I'll take you there' / Rachael McLennan
  • Part IV: The novel and postmodernism
  • Thirty acres of fairy-land: F. Scott Fitzgerald and postmodern 'Avant la lettre' / Alan Bilton
  • A postmodern iconography: Vonnegut and the American novel / Robert Tally
  • Part V: Circles of interconnection: Don DeLillo's 'Underworld' and Emersonian transcendentalism / Catherine Morley
  • Plotting a "Discourse of the secluded" : Pynchon's literary ecology / Chris Coughran
  • Part VI: The novel and language
  • Making cartoons with words: language and visual representation in Paul Auster's 'City of glass' / Rochelle Sibley
  • "Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity
  • I am my language": Chicana writing / Faith Pullin.

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