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Titolo: |
A companion to twentieth-century United States fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Seed
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Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (610 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813.5209 |
Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century | |
Altri autori: |
SeedDavid
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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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | A companion to twentieth-century United States fiction ![]() |
ISBN: | 9781444310115 |
1-78268-726-2 | |
1-282-49116-4 | |
9786612491160 | |
1-4051-9743-9 | |
1-4443-1010-0 | |
1-4443-1011-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910830276203321 |
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