04079nam 2200625Ia 450 991013947690332120170810183207.01-78268-726-21-282-49116-497866124911601-4051-9743-91-4443-1010-01-4443-1011-9(CKB)2550000000006612(EBL)480482(OCoLC)593273934(SSID)ssj0000336025(PQKBManifestationID)11289970(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336025(PQKBWorkID)10279117(PQKB)10695013(MiAaPQ)EBC480482(EXLCZ)99255000000000661220090326d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to twentieth-century United States fiction[electronic resource] /edited by David SeedMalden, MA Wiley-Blackwellc20101 online resource (610 p.)Blackwell companions to literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-4691-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 FictionPart 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 Pynchon41: 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; IndexThrough 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 Blackwell companions to literature and culture.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryHandbooks, manuals, etcElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticismLiterature and societyHistory813.5209Seed David169157MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910139476903321A companion to twentieth-century United States fiction2166880UNINA