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The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction: John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo de Catherine Morley

The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction: John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

Autor Catherine Morley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 ian 2011
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415888516
ISBN-10: 0415888514
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

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.

Recenzii

"This intellectually sophisticated book considers three major novelists, each of whom has produced a large body of significant work that has received extensive critical attention...Recommended."
-- Choice, June 2009
'innovative and elegantly argued.' - Rezension

Descriere

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.