Reading the American Novel 1920–2010
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hersteller)
978-1-118-51287-6 (ISBN)
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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).
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Reading the American Novel, 1920 2010 1 1 Principles of Rhetorical Reading 23 2 The Age of Innocence (1920): Bildung and the Ethics of Desire 39 3 The Great Gatsby (1925): Character Narration, Temporal Order, and Tragedy 61 4 A Farewell to Arms (1929): Bildung, Tragedy, and the Rhetoric of Voice 85 5 The Sound and the Fury (1929): Portrait Narrative as Tragedy 105 6 Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937): Bildung and the Rhetoric and Politics of Voice 127 7 Invisible Man (1952): Bildung, Politics, and Rhetorical Design 149 8 Lolita (1955): The Ethics of the Telling and the Ethics of the Told 171 9 The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): Mimetic Protagonist, Thematic Synthetic Storyworld 193 10 Beloved (1987): Sethe s Choice and Morrison s Ethical Challenge 213 11 Freedom (2010): Realism after Postmodernism 237 Index 261
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.4.2013 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 250 mm |
Gewicht | 666 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-118-51287-1 / 1118512871 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-51287-6 / 9781118512876 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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