04130cam a2200757 i 4500 ocn824610063 OCoLC 20171112125130.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 130116s2013 enk o 001 0 eng 2013002087 9781118512890 ( ePub) 1118512898 ( ePub) 9781118512869 (MobiPocket) 1118512863 (MobiPocket) 9781118512883 (Adobe PDF) 111851288X (Adobe PDF) 9780631230670 (cloth) 9781118512876 1118512871 063123067X AU@ 000053305846 NLGGC 369516583 NZ1 15028181 NZ1 15340436 DKDLA 820120-katalog:000664121 DEBBG BV041912879 AU@ 000058063927 (OCoLC)824610063 (OCoLC)837528089 (OCoLC)841906595 (OCoLC)860612314 DLC eng rda DLC DG1 YDXCP N$T E7B MEU NOC OCLCF COO MHW IDEBK MEAUC AZU HVC NLE OCLCO OCL pcc n-us--- MAIN PS379 LIT 004020 bisacsh 813/.509 23 Phelan, James, 1951- Reading the American novel 1920-2010 / James Phelan. [electronic resource] Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013. 1 online resource. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Reading the Novel Includes index. Introduction: Reading the American novel, 1920-2010 -- Principles of rhetorical reading -- The Age of Innocence (1920): bildung and the ethics of desire -- The Great Gatsby (1925): character narration, temporal order, and tragedy -- A Farewell to Arms (1929): bildung, tragedy, and the rhetoric of voice -- The Sound and the Fury (1929): portrait narrative as tragedy -- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937): bildung and the rhetoric and politics of voice -- Invisible Man (1952): bildung, politics, and rhetorical design -- Lolita (1955): the ethics of the telling and the ethics of the told -- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): mimetic protagonist, thematic-synthetic storyworld -- Beloved (1987): Sethe's choice and Morrison's ethical challenge -- Freedom (2010): realism after postmodernism. 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 FreedomRelates these individual novels to the broader artistic m Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. 1900-1999 fast American fiction 20th century History and criticism. Books and reading United States. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh American fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst00807048 Books and reading. fast (OCoLC)fst00836454 American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism. Books and reading - United States. United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Electronic books. Print version: Phelan, James, 1951- Reading the American novel 1920-2010 Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013 9780631230670 (DLC) 2012046829 Reading the novel. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118512876 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 206356 206356