| Description |
1 online resource (x, 256 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part I: Novel in America -- Henry James's project of the new American Novel / Agnes Zsofia Kovacs -- "It could have been any street" : Ann Petry, Stephen Crane and the fate of naturalism / Don Dingledine -- Part II : Novel and politics -- Truman Capote's 'In cold blood' in the atomic age / Ilse Schrynemakers -- Space between: Ralph Ellison's politics of space and the reusable past of abolitionist literature / Zoe Trodd -- Part III: Novel and sexuality -- Djuna Barnes: sexual prophet of the American novel? / Richard Espley -- Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita' and free play / Thomas Karshan -- Intimacy in the radical narratives of Toni Morrison / Stephani Li -- Showing the fly the way out of the bell-jar: cobbling a philosophy of adolescence in Joyce Carol Oates's 'I'll take you there' / Rachael McLennan -- Part IV: Novel and postmodernism -- Thirty acres of fairy-land: F. Scott Fitzgerald and postmodern 'Avant la lettre' / Alan Bilton -- A postmodern iconography: Vonnegut and the American novel / Robert Tally -- Part V: Circles of interconnection: Don DeLillo's 'Underworld' and Emersonian transcendentalism / Catherine Morley -- Plotting a "Discourse of the secluded" : Pynchon's literary ecology / Chris Coughran -- Part VI: Novel and language -- Making cartoons with words: language and visual representation in Paul Auster's 'City of glass' / Rochelle Sibley -- "Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity -- I am my language": Chicana writing / Faith Pullin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Added Author |
Boyle, Elizabeth (Lecturer)
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Evans, Anne-Marie.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reading America. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2008 9781847187772 (DLC) 2009358827 (OCoLC)239844391 |
| ISBN |
9781443807234 (electronic book) |
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1443807230 (electronic book) |
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9781847187772 |
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1847187773 |
| Standard No. |
60001011237 |
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