This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations, and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.
This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations, and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Catherine Morley is the Academic Fellow in the Cultures of Modernism at Oxford Brookes University. She has recently published a co-edited collection of essays, American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century, and is currently working on Modern American Fiction. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Comparative American Studies, English, and the Journal of American Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Theoretical and Generic Considerations Chapter Two: A Transnational Inheritance: Joycean and American Ancestry Chapter Three: The Bard of Everyday Domesticity: John Updike's Song of America Chapter Four: Transnational Paternalisms: Philip Roth's Post-Pastoral American Epic Chapter Five: Don DeLillo's Underworld as Recycled American Epic Conclusion: New American Vistas Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Theoretical and Generic Considerations Chapter Two: A Transnational Inheritance: Joycean and American Ancestry Chapter Three: The Bard of Everyday Domesticity: John Updike's Song of America Chapter Four: Transnational Paternalisms: Philip Roth's Post-Pastoral American Epic Chapter Five: Don DeLillo's Underworld as Recycled American Epic Conclusion: New American Vistas Notes Bibliography Index
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