1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830276203321

Titolo

A companion to twentieth-century United States fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Seed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010

ISBN

9781444310115

1-78268-726-2

1-282-49116-4

9786612491160

1-4051-9743-9

1-4443-1010-0

1-4443-1011-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (610 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

SeedDavid

Disciplina

813.5209

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Genres, Traditions, and Subject Areas; 1: U.S. Modernism; 2: The City Novel; 3: The Western; 4: Postmodern U.S. Fiction; 5: Modern Gothic; 6: The Short Story; 7: Southern Fiction; 8: Jewish American Fiction; 9: "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me": Modern African American Fiction; 10: U.S. Detective Fiction; 11: Hard-Boiled/Noir Fiction; 12: Chicano Fiction; 13: Black Humor Fiction; 14: Fiction on the Vietnam War; 15: The Rediscovery of the Native American; 16: Trash Fiction

Part II: Selected Writers17: Edith Wharton; 18: Willa Cather's Entropology: Permanence and Transmission; 19: Gertrude Stein and Seriality; 20: Ernest Hemingway; 21: John Dos Passos; 22: Thomas Wolfe; 23: F. Scott Fitzgerald; 24: Zora Neale Hurston; 25: Theodore Dreiser; 26: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha; 27: H.D.'s Visionary Prose; 28: John Steinbeck; 29: Raymond Chandler; 30: Richard Wright; 31: Ralph Ellison; 32: James Baldwin; 33: Vladimir Nabokov; 34:



Norman Mailer; 35: William S. Burroughs; 36: Saul Bellow; 37: Gore Vidal; 38: Joseph Heller; 39: Kurt Vonnegut; 40: Thomas Pynchon

41: Ishmael Reed: American Iconoclast42: Joyce Carol Oates; 43: Philip Roth; 44: The Fiction of John Updike: Timely and Timeless; 45: Maxine Hong Kingston; 46: Toni Morrison; 47: Alice Walker; 48: Don DeLillo; 49: Gerald Vizenor: Postindian Gamester; 50: Bret Easton Ellis; 51: Amy Tan: "American Circumstances and Chinese Character"; 52: Paul Auster: Poet of Solitude; 53: Bharati Mukherjee; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War.  Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fieldsWritten in an approachable and accessible styleCovers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelistsProvides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910216940703321

Titolo

Biofuels, bioproducts & biorefining : Biofpr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Chichester, West Sussex] : , : John Wiley & Sons, , [2007]-

©2007-

ISSN

1932-1031

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

662

Soggetti

Biomass energy

Biological products

Productes biològics

Energia de la biomassa

Biomassa

Periodicals.

Revistes electròniques

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed