Reading the American novel 1920-2010 / James Phelan.
| Author/creator | Phelan, James, 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Phelan, James, 1951- Reading the American novel 1920-2010 Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013 9780631230670 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013002087 |
| ISBN | 9781118512890 ( ePub) |
| ISBN | 9781118512869 (MobiPocket) |
| ISBN | 9781118512883 (Adobe PDF) |