Invisible criticism : Ralph Ellison and the American canon / / by Alan Nadel
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| Autore: |
Nadel Alan <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Invisible criticism : Ralph Ellison and the American canon / / by Alan Nadel
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1988 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (199 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
| 813.54 | |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans in literature |
| Canon (Literature) | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Origins of Invisibility; 2. Translating Tradition; 3. Tod Clifton: Spiritual and Carnal; 4. Invisible Man in the Golden Day; 5. Invisible Criticism: Melville and Emerson Revised; 6. Invisible Man, Huck, and Jim; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 1952 Ralph Ellison won the National Book Award for his Kafkaesque and claustrophobic novel about the life of a nameless young black man in New York City. Although Invisible Man has remained the only novel that Ellison published in his lifetime, it is generally regarded as one of the most important works of fiction in our century.This new reading of a classic work examines Ellison's relation to and critique of the American literary canon by demonstrating that the pattern of allusions in Invisible Man forms a literary-critical subtext which challenges the a |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Invisible criticism |
| ISBN: | 9781587291630 |
| 1587291630 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910963777203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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