TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phelan,James
TI  - Reading the American novel 1920-2010
T2  - Reading the Novel
SN  - 9781118512890 ( ePub)
AV  - PS379 
U1  - 813/.509 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, UK, Malden, MA
PB  - John Wiley & Sons Inc.
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - United States
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
KW  - Books and reading - United States
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes index; 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
N2  - This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form. Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and early twenty-first century American literary history Provides analyses of numerous core texts including The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot 49 and FreedomRelates these individual novels to the broader artistic m
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118512876
ER  -