The dream of the great American novel / / Lawrence Buell
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| Autore: |
Buell Lawrence
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| Titolo: |
The dream of the great American novel / / Lawrence Buell
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
| American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| National characteristics, American, in literature | |
| Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States In literature |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE UNKILLABLE DREAM -- 1. Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline -- 2. Reborn from the Critical Ashes -- PART TWO. SCRIPT ONE: MADE CLASSIC BY RETELLING -- 3. The Reluctant Master Text -- PART THREE. SCRIPT TWO: ASPIRATION IN AMERICA -- Introduction -- 4. "Success" Stories from Franklin to the Dawn of Modernism -- 5. Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- 6. Up- From Narrative in Hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and Beyond -- PART FOUR. SCRIPT THREE: ROMANCING THE DIVIDES -- Introduction -- 7. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Aftermaths -- 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others -- 9. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Literary Interracialism North and South -- 10. Morrison's Beloved as Culmination and Augury -- PART FIVE. SCRIPT FOUR: IMPROBABLE COMMUNITIES -- Introduction -- 11. Moby- Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel -- 12. The Great American Novel of Twentieth- Century Breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.- or Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? -- 13. Late Twentieth- Century Maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow- and Its Rainbow -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Great American Novel explains why this supposedly antiquated idea continues to thrive. It shows that four G.A.N. "scripts" are keys to the dynamics of American literature and identity--and to the myth of a nation perpetually under construction. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The dream of the great American novel |
| ISBN: | 0-674-72748-7 |
| 0-674-72632-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815567703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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