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Auteur(s) : MacGowan, Christopher John (1948-....)
Titre(s) : The twentieth-century American fiction handbook [Texte imprimé] / Christopher MacGowan
Publication : Chichester ; Malden (Mass.) : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
Description matérielle : xvii-390 p. ; 23 cm
Collection : Blackwell literature handbooks
Lien à la collection : Blackwell literature handbooks
Comprend : Machine generated contents notept. 1 ; Historical Contexts -- ; The American Scene,
c.1900 -- ; Expatriates: 1920s and Beyond -- ; Charting the Depression: The 1930s
-- ; Post-war Alienation, Experiment, and Alternatives -- ; Multicultural America:
Borders, Tradition, and Identity --pt. 2 ; Major Writers -- ; Henry James (1843-1916)
-- ; Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- ; Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- ; Willa Cather
(1873-1947) -- ; Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- ; Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) -- ; Raymond
Chandler (1888-1959) -- ; Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- ; F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940) -- ; John Dos Passos (1896-1970) -- ; William Faulkner (1897-1962) --
; Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -- ; Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) -- ; Thomas Wolfe
(1900-1938) -- ; John Steinbeck (1902-1968) -- ; Nathanael West (1903-1940) -- ; Richard
Wright (1908-1960) -- ; William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) -- ; Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) -- ; James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- ; John Barth (b. 1930)
-- ; Toni Morrison (b. 1931) -- ; John Updike (1932-2009) -- ; Philip Roth (b. 1933)
-- ; Don DeLillo (b. 1936) -- ; Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) -- ; Joyce Carol Oates (b.
1938) -- ; Raymond Carver (1938-1988) -- ; Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) -- ; Sherman Alexie
(b. 1966) --pt. 3 ; Key Texts -- ; Sister Carrie (1900) /Theodore Dreiser -- ; The
Wings of the Dove (1902) /Henry James -- ; The House of Mirth (1905) /Edith Wharton
-- ; My Antonia (1918) /Willa Cather -- ; Winesburg, Ohio (1919) /Sherwood Anderson
-- ; Babbitt (1922) /Sinclair Lewis -- ; The Great Gatsby (1925) /F. Scott Fitzgerald
-- ; In Our Time (1925) /Ernest Hemingway -- ; The Sound and the Fury (1929) /William
Faulkner -- ; Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) /Zora Neale Hurston -- ; Nightwood
(1937) /Djuna Barnes -- ; The Grapes of Wrath (1939) /John Steinbeck -- ; Native Son
(1940) /Richard Wright
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) /J. D. Salinger -- ; Wise Blood (1952) /Flannery O'Connor
-- ; Invisible Man (1952) /Ralph Ellison -- ; On the Road (1957) /Jack Kerouac --
; Lolita (1958) /Vladimir Nabokov -- ; Catch-22 (1961) /Joseph Heller -- ; Naked Lunch
(1962) /William S. Burroughs -- ; Herzog (1964) /Saul Bellow -- ; The Crying of Lot
49 (1966) /Thomas Pynchon -- ; Portnoy's Complaint (1969) /Philip Roth -- ; Ceremony
(1977) /Leslie Marmon Silko -- ; The Color Purple (1982) /Alice Walker -- ; The House
on Mango Street (1984) /Sandra Cisneros -- ; Neuromancer (1984) /William Gibson --
; White Noise (1985) /Don DeLillo -- ; Beloved (1987) /Toni Morrison -- ; The Joy
Luck Club (1989) /Amy Tan -- ; All the Pretty Horses (1992) /Cormac McCarthy --pt.
4 ; Themes -- ; Race and American Fiction -- ; The American Short Story -- ; Hollywood
and American Fiction -- ; Women and Twentieth-Century American Fiction.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-377) and index
This student-friendly handbook provides an overview of American fiction over the 20th
century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as
well as the major texts and writers
Sujet(s) : Roman américain -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781405160247 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1405160241 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9781405160230 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1405160233 (hardcover) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb425312272
Notice n° :
FRBNF42531227
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