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Author: David D. Galloway
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1981-06-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0292703554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzes the ways in which four contemporary novelists depict the rebel and the world that rejects him. Bibliogs
Author: Neil Cornwell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1847796575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien. The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American) – as well as those more concerned with theatre studies, the avant-garde and the history of ideas (including humour theory). It should also have a wide appeal to the enthusiastic general reader.
Author: D. Simmons
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-05-26
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0230612520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.
Author: Tony Hilfer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1317871243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Charles H. Harris
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1972-07
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780808400431
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Author: S. Halldorson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-12-09
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0230609783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero."
Author: Catherine Morley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1135899592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.
Author: Jack Salzman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-08-29
Total Pages: 888
ISBN-13: 9780521266864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.
