Reading the American Novel 1920-2010
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Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

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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 history
  • Provides analyses of numerous core texts including The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot 49 and Freedom
  • Relates these individual novels to the broader artistic movements of modernism and postmodernism
  • Explains and applies key principles of rhetorical reading
  • Includes numerous cross-novel comparisons and contrasts

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2013
ISBN
9781118512890
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Reading the American Novel, 1920–2010
  7. Chapter 1: Principles of Rhetorical Reading
  8. Chapter 2: The Age of Innocence (1920): Bildung and the Ethics of Desire
  9. Chapter 3: The Great Gatsby (1925): Character Narration, Temporal Order, and Tragedy
  10. Chapter 4: A Farewell to Arms (1929): Bildung, Tragedy, and the Rhetoric of Voice
  11. Chapter 5: The Sound and the Fury (1929): Portrait Narrative as Tragedy
  12. Chapter 6: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937): Bildung and the Rhetoric and Politics of Voice
  13. Chapter 7: Invisible Man (1952): Bildung, Politics, and Rhetorical Design
  14. Chapter 8: Lolita (1955): The Ethics of the Telling and the Ethics of the Told
  15. Chapter 9: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): Mimetic Protagonist, Thematic–Synthetic Storyworld
  16. Chapter 10: Beloved (1987): Sethe's Choice and Morrison's Ethical Challenge
  17. Chapter 11: Freedom (2010): Realism after Postmodernism
  18. Index