Tessa Roynon

Broschiertes Buch

The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction

Beschreibung

This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.

Autor

Tessa Roynon is a Senior Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, where she teaches American and world literature. Internationally renowned for her work on Toni Morrison, she has published extensively on numerous modern American novelists including E.L. Doctorow, Ralph Ellison, Jeffrey Eugenides and Marilynne Robinson. Her second sole-authored book, Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture (OUP, 2013), was awarded the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize in 2015.

Produktdetails

• BAAS Paperbacks
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781474434034
• ISBN-10: 1474434037
• Artikelnr.: 59412328