A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950

A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950
Author: John T. Matthews
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2013-03-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 111866163X

This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. Brings together 28 original essays from leading scholars Allows readers to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contexts Contributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such as those of African American novelists, and popular subgenres, such as detective fiction Directs students to major relevant scholarship for further inquiry Suggests the many ways that “modern”, “American” and “fiction” carry new meanings in the twenty-first century

American Fiction Since 1940

American Fiction Since 1940
Author: Tony Hilfer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317871243

In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction and black humour, the fiction of social protest, women's writing, and the traditions of African-American, Southern and Jewish-American fiction. Key writers discussed include William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Vladimir Nabokov and Joyce Carol Oates. The book concludes by exploring contemporary trends through detailed case-studies of Donald Barthelme and Toni Morrison.

Conrad Richter’s America

Conrad Richter’s America
Author: Marvin J. LaHood
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2019-03-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111370704

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Contemporary American Novelists

Contemporary American Novelists
Author: Carl Van Doren
Publisher: Pinnacle Press
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2017-05-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781374813564

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