The Modern American Novel

ISBN-13: 9780192892348 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 340 str.

Malcolm Bradbury

Opis

This revised and updated edition of Bradbury's account of the modern American novel places particular emphasis on the multiplicity of the contemporary American novel, while providing a critical survey of the fictional scene from 1890 to 1991.

Recenzje

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Spis treści

Preface; Naturalism and Impressionism: The 1890s; Modernity and Modernism 1900-1912; Artists and Philistines 1912-1920; Art-Style and Life-Style: The 1920s; Realism and Surrealism: The 1930s; Liberal and existential imaginations: The 1940s and 1950s; Postmoderns and others: The 1960s and after; Late Postmoderns: five fictional enquiries of the 1980s; After the post; American fiction from the 1970s to the 1990s; The American novel since 1890; A list of major works; Select bibliography; Index

O autorze

A world-famous author and academic, Malcolm Bradbury is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.