Description |
viii, 270 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Reading the novel
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Reading the novel.
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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.
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American fiction. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Books and reading -- United States.
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Books and reading. |
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United States. |
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Age of innocence.
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lolita.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Great Gatsby.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Farewell to arms.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Sound and the fury.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.
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Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man.
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Pynchon, Thomas. Crying of lot 49.
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Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
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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) |
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063123067X (cloth) |
Standard No. |
40022471983 |
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