Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction

John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo

AvCatherine Morley

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-01-06
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
Antal sidor:226
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415888516

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Catherine Morley is the Academic Fellow in the Cultures of Modernism at Oxford Brookes University. She has recently published a co-edited collection of essays, American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century, and is currently working on Modern American Fiction. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Comparative American Studies, English, and the Journal of American Studies.

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"This intellectually sophisticated book considers three major novelists, each of whom has produced a large body of significant work that has received extensive critical attention...Recommended."-- Choice, June 2009'innovative and elegantly argued.' - Rezension

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter One: Theoretical and Generic Considerations Chapter Two: A Transnational Inheritance: Joycean and American Ancestry Chapter Three: The Bard of Everyday Domesticity: John Updike’s Song of America Chapter Four: Transnational Paternalisms: Philip Roth’s Post-Pastoral American Epic Chapter Five: Don DeLillo’s Underworld as Recycled American Epic Conclusion: New American VistasNotes Bibliography Index