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Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American fiction. The book challenges the opinion expressed in the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991) and propagated by many influential scholars that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction is represented by the disjunctive and nihilistic work of such writers as Kathy Acker, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. Professor Alsen disagrees. He contends that this kind of fiction is not read and taught much outside an isolated but...

Before J.D. Salinger became famous for his novel The Catcher in the Rye, he was a soldier in World War II. While serving in the US Army's Counter Intelligence Corps, Salinger wrote more than twenty short stories. Eberhard Alsen, through meticulous archival research and careful analysis of the literary record, corrects mistaken assumptions about the young writer's war years and their repercussions.

American novelists of the 20th century have rejected an objective perspective on the world in favour of one that resembles the transcendental and epistemological investigations by earlier novelists and poets. This text is an overview of this romantic trend in contemporary fiction. This volume includes three classic essays on romanticism by Saul Bellow, Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison as well as essays on the works of John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nobokov, Toni Morrison, John Hawkes, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Walker Percy, John Barth, Ralph Ellison and J.D....