LEADER 04074nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910830276203321 005 20240130142433.0 010 $a9781444310115 010 $a1-78268-726-2 010 $a1-282-49116-4 010 $a9786612491160 010 $a1-4051-9743-9 010 $a1-4443-1010-0 010 $a1-4443-1011-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000006612 035 $a(EBL)480482 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000336025 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11289970 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336025 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10279117 035 $a(PQKB)10695013 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC480482 035 $a(OCoLC)476311800 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000006612 100 $a20090326d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to twentieth-century United States fiction$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by David Seed 210 $aMalden, MA $cWiley-Blackwell$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (610 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-4691-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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 327 $aPart 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 327 $a41: 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 330 $aThrough a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War. Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fieldsWritten in an approachable and accessible styleCovers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelistsProvides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay 410 0$aBlackwell companions to literature and culture. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a813.5209 701 $aSeed$b David$0169157 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910830276203321 996 $aA companion to twentieth-century United States fiction$94003005 997 $aUNINA