Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries /

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Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Müller, Timo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]
Colección:Handbooks of English and American studies ; 4.
Temas:
Andrae, A.
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
1900-2099
Geschichte 1903-2012
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
(Produktform)Electronic book text
(Zielgruppe)Allgemein
(BISAC Subject Heading)LIT004020
(BISAC Subject Heading)LIT004120: LIT004120 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
(BISAC Subject Heading)LIT000000: LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General
American Novel; Contemporary American Literature
(VLB-WN)9564
American; novel; twentieth century; twenty-first century
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editors' Preface
  • Contents
  • 0. Introduction
  • Part I. Systematic Questions
  • 1. Modernism
  • 2. Postmodernism
  • 3. Cultural Diversity
  • 4. Intermediality
  • 5. Inter-American Perspectives
  • 6. The American Novel and the Marketplace
  • 7. Futures of the American Novel
  • Part II. Close Readings
  • 8. Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903)
  • 9. Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918)
  • 10. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
  • 11. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925)
  • 12. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  • 13. William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
  • 14. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936)
  • 15. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
  • 16. Richard Wright, Native Son (1940)
  • 17. Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (1946)
  • 18. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
  • 19. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (1952)
  • 20. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
  • 21. Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
  • 22. Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977)
  • 23. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984)
  • 24. Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985)
  • 25. Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
  • 26. Philip Roth, American Pastoral (1997)
  • 27. Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005)
  • 28. Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006)
  • 29. Louise Erdrich, The Round House (2012)
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Names
  • List of Contributors.

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