The dream of the great American novel /
| Основен автор: | Buell, Lawrence, (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2014.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Print version::
Dream of the great American novel |
Съдържание:
- Birth, heyday, and seeming decline
- Reborn from the critical ashes
- The reluctant master text: the making and remakings of Hawthorne's The scarlet letter
- American dreamers in context
- "Success" stories from Franklin to the dawn of modernism
- Belated ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow
- Up-from narrative in hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and beyond
- Shifting ratios, dangerous proximities
- Uncle Tom's cabin and its aftermaths
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and its others
- Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the wind, and literary interracialism North and South
- Morrison's Beloved as culmination and augury
- Fatalisms of the multitude
- Melville's Moby-Dick: from oblivion to great American novel
- The great American novel of twentieth-century breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.
- or Steinbeck's Grapes of wrath?
- Late twentieth-century maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow
- and its rainbow.