Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

Reading the American Novel 1920-2010
ISBN-10
1118512898
ISBN-13
9781118512890
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2013-04-02
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Author
James Phelan

Description

This astute guide to the literary achievements of Americannovelists in the twentieth century places their work in itshistorical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novelsbased on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrativeform. Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and earlytwenty-first century American literary history Provides analyses of numerous core texts including The GreatGatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot49 and Freedom Relates these individual novels to the broader artisticmovements of modernism and postmodernism Explains and applies key principles of rhetorical reading Includes numerous cross-novel comparisons andcontrasts

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