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Author Phelan, James, 1951-

Title Reading the American novel, 1920-2010 / James Phelan.

Publication Info. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
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Description viii, 270 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Reading the novel
Reading the novel.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Reading the American novel, 1920-2010 -- Principles of rhetorical reading -- The Age of Innocence (1920): bildung and the ethics of desire -- The Great Gatsby (1925): character narration, temporal order, and tragedy -- A Farewell to Arms (1929): bildung, tragedy, and the rhetoric of voice -- The Sound and the Fury (1929): portrait narrative as tragedy -- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937): bildung and the rhetoric and politics of voice -- Invisible Man (1952): bildung, politics, and rhetorical design -- Lolita (1955): the ethics of the telling and the ethics of the told -- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): mimetic protagonist, thematic-synthetic storyworld -- Beloved (1987): Sethe's choice and Morrison's ethical challenge -- Freedom (2010): realism after postmodernism.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Books and reading -- United States.
Books and reading.
United States.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Age of innocence.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lolita.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Great Gatsby.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Farewell to arms.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Sound and the fury.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man.
Pynchon, Thomas. Crying of lot 49.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
Other Form: Online version: Phelan, James, 1951- Reading the American novel 1920-2010 Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013 9781118512869 (DLC) 2013002087
ISBN 9780631230670 (cloth)
063123067X (cloth)
Standard No. 40022471983