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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830276203321
• 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