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Reading the American Novel 1920-2010
Contributor(s): Phelan, James (Author)
ISBN: 063123067X     ISBN-13: 9780631230670
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $85.45  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 813.509
LCCN: 2012046829
Series: Reading the Novel
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 278 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

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