Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

Download or read book Reading the American Novel 1920-2010 written by James Phelan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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