Catherine Morley

The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction

John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780415888516
• ISBN-10: 0415888514
• Artikelnr.: 57047358

Autorenporträt

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