Phelan Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-51289-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Reading the Novel

This astute guide to the literary achievements of Americannovelists in the twentieth century places their work in itshistorical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novelsbased on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrativeform.

* Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and earlytwenty-first century American literary history

* Provides analyses of numerous core texts including The GreatGatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot49 and Freedom

* Relates these individual novels to the broader artisticmovements of modernism and postmodernism

* Explains and applies key principles of rhetorical reading

* Includes numerous cross-novel comparisons andcontrasts

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phelan, James

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Reading the American Novel, 1920-20101
1 Principles of Rhetorical Reading 23
2 The Age of Innocence (1920): Bildung and the Ethics of Desire39
3 The Great Gatsby (1925): Character Narration, Temporal Order,and Tragedy 61
4 A Farewell to Arms (1929): Bildung, Tragedy, and the Rhetoricof Voice 85
5 The Sound and the Fury (1929): Portrait Narrative as Tragedy105
6 Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937): Bildung and the Rhetoricand Politics of Voice 127
7 Invisible Man (1952): Bildung, Politics, and Rhetorical Design149
8 Lolita (1955): The Ethics of the Telling and the Ethics of theTold 171
9 The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): Mimetic Protagonist,
Thematic-Synthetic Storyworld 193
10 Beloved (1987): Sethe's Choice and Morrison'sEthical Challenge 213
11 Freedom (2010): Realism after Postmodernism 237
Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

James Phelan is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University, USA. His wide-ranging research in narrative theory includes influential studies of literary character, narrative progression, unreliable narration, and the ethics of reading as well as significant fresh interpretations of numerous twentieth-century American and British novels and short stories. The editor of Narrative, the journal International Society for the Study of Narrative, Prof Phelan is also a prolific author and editor whose credits include the prize-winning Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005), the Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory (2005) and the collaboratively written Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (2012).