The modern American novel : essays in criticism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York:
Random House,
c1966
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| Series: | Studies in language and literature ;
SLL 6 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the possibilbity of fiction
- Dreiserʹs "An american tragedy": a critical study / Richard Lehan
- "The book of the grotesque" / Irving Howe
- Sinclair Lewis: the cosmic bourjoyce / Maxwell Ceismar
- "The great Gatsby": style and myth / Douglas Taylor
- Thomas Wolfe and death / J. Russell Reaver and Robert I. Strozier
- Tristan or Jacob: the choice of "The sun also rises" / Robert W. Lewis, jr.
- Criticism and "A farewell to arms" / Norman Friedman
- "The old man and the sea": Hemingwayʹs tragic vision of man / Clinton S. Burhans, jr.
- Mirror analogues in "The sound and the fury" / Lawrance Thompson
- "As I lay dying": Faulknerʹs inner reporter / William J. Handy
- "The grapes of wrath" / Peter Lisca
- "Humpty Dumpty" and "All the kingʹs men": a note on Robert Penn Warrenʹs Teleology / James Ruoff
- No "Catcher in the rye" / J. D. Oʹ Hara
- Quest and affirmation in "Henderson the rain king" / Ihab Hassan