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Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvJames Phelan,USA) Phelan, James (Ohio State University

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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 historyProvides 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 movements of modernism and postmodernismExplains and applies key principles of rhetorical readingIncludes numerous cross-novel comparisons and contrasts

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Utgivningsdatum2013-05-17
Mått158 x 238 x 18 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieReading the Novel
Antal sidor278
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9780631230670

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James Phelan is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University, USA. His wide-ranging research in narrative theory includes influential studies of literary character, narrative progression, unreliable narration, and the ethics of reading as well as significant fresh interpretations of numerous twentieth-century American and British novels and short stories. The editor of Narrative, the journal International Society for the Study of Narrative, Prof Phelan is also a prolific author and editor whose credits include the prize-winning Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005), the Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory (2005) and the collaboratively written Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (2012).

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Reading the American Novel, 1920–2010 1 1 Principles of Rhetorical Reading 232 The Age of Innocence (1920): Bildung and the Ethics of Desire 393 The Great Gatsby (1925): Character Narration, Temporal Order, and Tragedy 614 A Farewell to Arms (1929): Bildung, Tragedy, and the Rhetoric of Voice 855 The Sound and the Fury (1929): Portrait Narrative as Tragedy 1056 Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937): Bildung and the Rhetoric and Politics of Voice 1277 Invisible Man (1952): Bildung, Politics, and Rhetorical Design 1498 Lolita (1955): The Ethics of the Telling and the Ethics of the Told 1719 The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): Mimetic Protagonist,Thematic–Synthetic Storyworld 19310 Beloved (1987): Sethe’s Choice and Morrison’s Ethical Challenge 21311 Freedom (2010): Realism after Postmodernism 237Index 261

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