Author : D. Simmons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230612520
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 : Philippe Codde
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557534378
Philippe Codde provides a comparative cultural analysis of the unprecedented success of the Jewish novel in the postwar United States by situating the process and event in the context of three closely-related American cultural movements: the popularity in the US of French philosophical and literary existentialism, the increasing visibility of the Holocaust in US-American life, and the advent of radical theology. Codde argues that the literary repertoire of the postwar Jewish novel consists of an amalgam of these cultural elements that were making their mark in the political, religious, and philosophical systems of the United States at the time, and that this explains, in part, the Jewish novel's sweeping success in the American literary system.
Author : Wallis R. Sanborn, III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786492708
In song, verse, narrative, and dramatic form, war literature has existed for nearly all of recorded history. Accounts of war continue to occupy American bestseller lists and the stacks of American libraries. This innovative work establishes the American novel of war as its own sub-genre within American war literature, creating standards by which such works can be classified and critically and popularly analyzed. Each chapter identifies a defining characteristic, analyzes existing criticism, and explores the characteristic in American war novels of record. Topics include violence, war rhetoric, the death of noncombatants, and terrain as an enemy.
Author : Adam Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441173749
American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero's life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture.
Author : Dalia M.A. Gomaa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137496266
In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America.
Author : M. Gauthier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230337821
This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.
Author : L. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230614051
The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries, but also complicating divisions between 'wilderness' and 'civilization.'
Author : W. Dow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230617964
Focusing on American fiction from 1850-1940, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings in the context of literary and political history to detail the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social identities.
Author : A. Graham-Bertolini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230339301
Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights.
Author : C. Kocela
Publisher : Springer
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230109985
This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century.
