Overview
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
Full Product Details
Author: James Phelan (Ohio State University, USA)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780631230670
ISBN 10: 063123067
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 17 May 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
It is an excellent book. (Primary Health Care,1 March 2015) Reading the American Novelis also a rich experience, both in terms of the novels discussed and in terms of their literary-critical examination. (Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas,13 January 2014)
It is an excellent book. (Primary Health Care,1 March 2015) Reading the American Novelis also a rich experience, both in terms of the novels discussed and in terms of their literary-critical examination. (Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas,13 January 2014)
It is an excellent book. (Primary Health Care,1 March 2015) Reading the American Novelis also a rich experience, both in terms of the novels discussed and in terms of their literary-critical examination. (Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas,13 January 2014)
<p> It is an excellent book. (Primary Health Care,1 March 2015) <p> Reading the American Novelis also a rich experience, both in terms of the novels discussed and in terms of their literary-critical examination. (Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas,13 January 2014) <p>
It is an excellent book. (Primary Health Care,1 March 2015) Reading the American Novelis also a rich experience, both in terms of the novels discussed and in terms of their literary-critical examination. (Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas,13 January 2014)
Author Information
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).
